Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

[Chris Friesen]

Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
> > Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
> > > may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a
> > > specific person or group of people. (There are some exceptions, but they
> > > do not apply to the situation that is being discussed)

The OpenBSD policy page doesn't agree with you:

"...That means that having granted a permission, the copyright holder 
can not retroactively say that an individual or class of individuals are 
no longer granted those permissions. Likewise should the copyright 
holder decide to "go commercial" he can not revoke permissions already 
granted for the use of the work as distributed, though he may impose 
more restrictive permissions in his future distributions of that work."

http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html


Chris
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