Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 05-Sep-06, at 7:13 PM, പ്രവീണ്|Praveen wrote:
<quote>In the end, Turner concedes, some degree of confusion is probably inescapable. "There's always going to be people who misunderstand," he says, "no matter how you write the license, even in words of one syllable."
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main reason for this is that most people, including fanatical supporters have never actualy *read* the GPL although they think they have. There are even people who believe that the GPL cannot be revoked once granted.
Huh ? I am guilty of not having read the GPL in full (too much legal language). And now you have me worried.
GPL can be revoked ? Under what circumstances can it be revoked ? So that will mean that after the GPL is revoked, you can not use the software ? Does the licensor have to inform each user separately or is the user expected to keep track of it. What happens to any further distribution on it ?
In current context, say MySQL decides to revoke the GPL. Can they do it ? What happens to all the software that are now designed to run on MySQL as it is under GPL ? (there was a real danger of this happening, as I know Oracle is making overtues and offering large sums of money to buy the company)
Regards Saswata
btw, i have now read the GPL
--regards
Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon@au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/