Automatic GPL termination

Chris Travers chris.travers at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 16:45:17 UTC 2007


On 9/12/07, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> Chris Travers scripsit:
>
> > How else can section 7 additional permissions be removed in the GPL3
> except
> > by sublicensing?
>
> Tinker writes Code and passes it to Evers under the GPLv3 with additional
> permissions.  Evers strips the additional permissions and passes the
> result to Chance.  This is just Evers modifying Code (as permitted by
> the license of Code) and conveying the modified work.  Chance now has
> a license direct from Tinker, so there is no sublicensing involved.



That is what I thought at first until I noticed that Evers is allowed to do
this *without* modifying code.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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