Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:35:22 -0800 |
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> On Thursday 02 February 2006 02:11, David Schwartz wrote:
> > The reason you can't modify the GPL, even we assume the GPL > > is licensed > > under the GPL, is because the GPL says you can't modify the GPL.
> So you're saying that the two lines that are the GPL's copyright > license, are also part of the terms and conditions of the GPL, and act in > that capacity as a restriction of what you can do under Section 2? That's > an interesting argument, I might agree.
Yes, the GPL is the license agreement for both the GPL and anything licensed under the GPL.
> > It is logically impossible for the GPL to be GPL-incompatible. To be > > GPL-incomptabile, a license would have to contain requirements or > > restrictions not found in the GPL. How could the GPL possibly do that?
> It's not the GPL doing that, it's the GPL's license. But perhaps the > restrictions of the license are also restrictions of the GPL, > they are part > of the text of that document after all.
I have no idea what you mean by the "GPL's license". If it's contained in the GPL, it's part of the GPL. The GPL is all of a piece.
DS
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