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Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

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On 2019-01-28 15:14, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:55:15PM +0000, mick crane wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> What I intended to mean was if somebody wants to try to alter
>> (rescind) the license
> 
> You'd have to explain what you mean by "rescind" here: the license
> to the current version or the one to the future versions. Details
> would depend on the license's text. GPLV3 is pretty explicit on
> that:
> 
>   2. Basic Permissions.
> 
>   All rights granted under this License are granted for the term
>   of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the
>   stated conditions are met.
> 
> Any questions?

nope

>> they would have to get the agreement of all the previous authors
>> whose work, released under the GPL, they used in their code.
> 
> This is a whole other kettle of fish, and you shouldn't mix it with
> the above -- this will result in impenetrable fog.
> 
> This concerns the case when a project wants to change the license:
> suppose it is "GPLV2 only" and the project leaders would like to
> relicense it to "GPLV3". This would run against the "GPLV2 only"
> terms, so it is only possible if /all copyright holders/ agree.
> 
> In some cases it's easy (as when there's just one copyright holder)
> in others (prominent example: the Linux kernel) each contributor
> retains the copyright to her own contribution... a change is
> practically impossible. But some (admittedly smaller at that time)
> projects have managed to pull that off [1].
> 
> The normal case is that when the original authors/company would
> like to do something like that, they expect a CLA ("Contributor's
> licence agreement") from their contributors (but that has to be
> done in advance, of course).
> 
>> Which I can't see happening.
> 
> Sometimes it happens (see OSM example below)
> 
> Cheers
> 
Was Smoothwall I think wanted to make proprietary and not release the 
code which resulted in IPCop.


> [1] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/tag/license-change/
> -- t

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Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 01:30 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 01:40 +0100
    Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-28 10:30 +0100
      Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 12:00 +0100
        Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-28 13:30 +0100
          Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 14:00 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-28 15:10 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-28 16:20 +0100
              Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 17:50 +0100
          Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-28 14:20 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-28 15:30 +0100
      Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 16:10 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?# Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-28 11:40 +0100
    Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?# Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-28 12:10 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2019-01-28 13:40 +0100

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