License Committee Report for August 2007

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Sep 7 02:49:21 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen scripsit:

> GPLv3 defines "further restrictions" as "other [besides the 7 types of
> allowed restrictions] non-permissive additional terms" and says "If the
> Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating
> that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further
> restriction, you may remove that term."

IOW, if the license says the GPLv3 controls *but*, then you can ignore
the *but*?

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