Hi Alexander;<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexander Terekhov</b> <<a href="mailto:alexander.terekhov@gmail.com">alexander.terekhov@gmail.com</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;">
<br>I don't care how GPL software interacts with my work. Interact all the<br>ways you want. I just can't grasp how that wonderful "pure copyright<br>license" ("sublicensing is not allowed ... the recipient automatically
<br>receives a license from the original licensors") could possibly apply<br>to work in which rights under copyright were simply completely<br>waived/abandoned by the copyright owner.</blockquote><div><br><br>You are right. It doesn't apply. It can't be sublicensed, nor can additional permissions be removed.
<br><br>However, since you have no copyrights to enforce, you can't really stop people from including it in GPL3 works as a whole.<br><br>If that is what you want, take a BSDL template and add a condition that states clearly that sublicensing under the terms of the GPL3 is not allowed.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Once you resolve that problem<br>regarding public domain, think of the case when "a license from the
<br>original licensors" is BSDL or something else non-GPL.</blockquote><div><br>My understanding of the BSDL is that it is possible to essentially add an additional license with the end licnesee governed by the GPL. This is the sublicense and seems to have no legal effect as far as I can tell by itself, since you get the full BSDL permissions from the original owner *and* the option of applying GPL restrictions to your own changes provided that they are copyright worthy (changing if ptr = NULL to if ptr == NULL probably wouldn't qualify because no expressive elements are added).
<br><br> Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br></div></div><br>