Re: [LAU] Pre-License change LinuxSampler code

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Paul Coccoli <pcoccoli@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > My only requirements in providing this code are:
> > >
> > > 1) Some sort of ongoing SourceForge or other publicly available
> > > location for the project needs to be created and maintained by a small
> > > group of project managers committed to the project. Responsibilities
> > > and duties to be agreed upon.
> >
> > So which clause of the license gives you the right to distribute with
> > additional requirements?
> >
>
> None, but I have no responsibility to distribute it either. If someone
> convinces me that they intend to keep the project GPL, accept a copy
> fro me, and then they don't keep it as a GPL project then shame on
> them but I probably wouldn't have any rights to enforce the agreement
> myself. Maybe the FSF would. I don't know. That's for lawyers.

Mark is not really adding any requirements. The GPL gives him the
right to redistribute. That same license requires anyone modifying
and redistributing that copy to also use the GPL.

Only the original authors have the right to distribute copies under
any other license.

If you modify anything, you can add your own copyright to theirs
and insist that anyone using those modifications also follow the
GPL rules. But, you must retain the original authors' copyright
notices, and will never have the option to change that license
without their permission.

> > > 2) The license for this fork must remain completely GPL forever.
> > > Should someone want to make a commercial product from this fork then
> > > the license should allow them to at least try. I expect they will run
> > > into the same issues, whatever they were, that the original
> > > LinuxSampler team had, but I do not want the license for this code to
> > > prohibit them from trying and at least we'll get the issues out on the
> > > table publicly.
> >
> > If you are not the copyright holder, how can you require that the
> > license not be changed?
>
> Well, I cannot require it legally. However I won't give anything out
> without the recipient

Mark can't, but the original copyright holders could, since the GPL is the
only license granting rights to this version of their code.

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 joq
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