jtd wrote:
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:47 am, Nachiketa Sadhu wrote:
So that will mean that after the GPL is revoked, you can not use the software ?
yes - you cannot
Sorry to barge in. I reread the GPL V2 again, but could not understand how a GPL V2 license can be revoked? Once the software is released it is out of the hands of the releaser. Can some one please point out the clause under which a license can be revoked (unless the license clause is violated).
Copyright law (on whose foundations the gpl derives it's legal standing) allows for revocation of any rights granted by the orginal copyright holder. Hence the holder can revoke the rights granted by the gpl (or any other right so granted under the provisions of coyright).
But can it be revoked with retrospect effect? Unless that is the fact, then this discussion is academic. Any software released will in all perpetuity be still under GPL and free.
Thanks and regards.
N. Sadhu