On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:42 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 07-Sep-06, at 10:18 AM, jtd wrote:
No. The gpl (or any copyright) can be revoked. But the earlier release and use is protected and cannot be revovked. so u can fork the earlier version and continue.
revoker can prevent you from forking also afaik.
Yes in principle. But has not happened in practice. You cant just revoke previous licence without sound reasons for the revocation against the previous licencees. Usually revocation works only if the original terms of the licence are violated.
US case law has well set precedents on this issue. Recent case jorg schillings cdrtools was relicenced only under the CDDL so Debian has thrown out cdrtools and forked a gpld version for further development.
could you give the case law.
i dont have the details :-(. But check out the groklaw archives. afair there was a discussion on this issue. Alternately run it through fsf legal.