<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Flaschen</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu">matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Travers wrote:<br><br>> Is this supplimental contract a sublicense?<br><br>Yes, probably. However, there's still a license directly from the<br>author to everyone downstream, so this sublicense is irrelevant unless
<br>modifications are made.</blockquote><div><br><br>Despite the questions of wording of the GPL3 itself, this actually makes a great deal of sense. Thanks :-) <br><br>As I think about this, the only time permissions are likely to be removed are during a fork or after a dependency is removed that required a linking exception. In short this makes this mostly a formality in advance of making the changes (when it has the force of copyright law).
<br></div></div><br>Thanks again.<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br>