<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2007 8:39 PM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <<a href="mailto:Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu">Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">My reading of it would have been different.
Any modified versions are derived from the original and I would have guessed the
same limitations of the original work so could not be GPL'd. It could
mean that you can't lock derived versions away under the GPL by extending
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">At least that would have been my guess at
the intent although I guess if you say you "can do whatever you want",
that would include re-licensing the original code and perhaps that's the
only thing prohibited.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>My reading would have been to make it *less* likely that a fork would arise. For example if a project understood that it was possible, though difficult, to license changes to the file under the GPL, they might opt to just leave the file license in place indefinitely, and thus contribute back improvements upstream to the permissively licensed projects.
<br><br>IANAL either, but in this case, my first impulse would be to contact the author for claification.<br><br>For example, something like:<br>Hi [author],<br><br>I noticed that your license does not permit the code under it to be licensed under the GPL. I am sort of confused what you mean by this. Are you saying it cannot be distributed as a part of a GPL'd work? Or is your intent to simply avoid confusion over whether a right to convert the license on your work is granted?
<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br></div></div><br>