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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] permission for using auctex code in wikipedia-mode.el
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] permission for using auctex code in wikipedia-mode.el |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:11:40 +0100 |
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Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> David> The GPL states
>
> David> 2b) You must cause any work that you distribute or
> David> publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived
> David> from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as
> David> a whole at no charge to all third parties under the
> David> terms of this License.
>
> David> This would concern the whole of wikipedia-mode.el including
> David> your enhancements. That's the work "in whole". If the rest
> David> of wikipedia-mode.el is not releasable under the GPL (by
> David> whoever), then forming a combined work is not legally
> David> feasible under the GPL.
>
> Thanks for the clarification, so if the original wikipedia-mode.el
> were say under the BSD (which it is not),
Under the original BSD with advertising clause.
> than I could not release the new wikipedia-mode.el (old+new) under
> GPL, right?
Work under the current BSDL can be rereleased as GPL. You just would
have to release as GPL as a whole: the restrictions of the GPL apply
also to those parts of the whole which you took from the "BSDL" reign.
> Fortunately wikipedia-mode.el is already under GPL :)
That should be fine, then.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum