<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>Re: When to evaluate dual licenses (was: license categories, was: I'm not supposed to use the ECL v2?)</TITLE>
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<DIV dir=ltr>John Cowan wrote:</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>> Arnoud Engelfriet scripsit:<BR>>> It would be most peculiar if the recipient could then receive a GPLv3<BR>>> license to the work from the copyright holder and use its section 3<BR>>> against the distributor, who explicitly refused to accept GPLv3.<BR><BR>>Hard cheese for him. The buyer gets both a GPLv2 and a GPLv3 license<BR>>for that part of the code directly from the author without further action<BR>>on anybody's part.<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>What? That can't be right. If it is GPL2 or later and you as developer explicitly</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>choose GPL v2 then GPL v2 it is for the entire work you distribute. The original </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>code can be gotten as either V2, V3, V4, Vn but the distributed derivative </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>version is V2.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>The distributor's code is GPL V2 Only in this scenario. Which is compatible </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>for GPL V2 and later code. The project as a whole is not GPL V3 or GPL </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>V3 or later compatible according to the FSF compatibility chart because</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>there is a GPL V2 only component within it.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>At no point do you get the distributor's code or entire work under GPL V3</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>so you can't invoke any V3 restrictions against that distributor.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>IANAL, etc.</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>