Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:06:22 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Khimenko Victor 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
>> and can not find it. Perhaps my copy of the GPL is not
>> authentic.
>
>It's not GPL. It's basic copyright law: author can issue product as many times
>as he wants. Even if such licenses are incompatible. GPL restricts all, except
>authors (or cpyright holders to be exact :-) Of course in case of product with
>few authors all authors should agree on terms ...

That is correct. I wasn't debating that. The word "exceptions"
in the sentence was very vague and open to interpretation. I
thought it was yet another person trying to say that one can take
the GPL, and say "this is licenced under GPL except for the
following restrictions" - which can not be done.

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