[darcs-devel] Re: May I please combine darcs with OpenSSH? (and Eclipse and SWT too?)

[Surendra Singhi]

Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> writes:

> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:27:11PM +0530, Surendra Singhi wrote:
>> IANAL, but IMO absolutely wrong interpretation of GPL. One can even sell GPL
>> code, the only requirement is that the license should be GPL. 
>
> IANAL too, but the 'one' you speak of here is the one who
> receives the software and accepts the license, and s/he must of
> course abide by it. The copyright holders on the other hand, own
> the right to the software and can do whatever they like with it,
> for example offering it (or some versions of it) under different
> licenses, in this case GPL + proposed exception.
>

Sure, they can. 

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