Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 06:28:57 -0500

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912280322120.2944-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>,
"Mike A
. Harris" writes:
+-----
| On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Rick Hohensee wrote:
| >The authors of GPLed works may make exceptions. I urge the authors of Linux
| >to refuse and discourage requests for such exceptions, and to speak plainly
| >about unauthorized violations.
|
| Please post the relevant lines from the GNU GPL document that say
| that an author may make exceptions. I have read it several times
+--->8

It doesn't need such a statement: the author *always* has the last word on
licensing.

However, such a modified license isn't the GPL.

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			kf8nh
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