🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1iindhINNfu5@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>The rest of your argument falls apart because you seem to be under
>the impression that I slap the GPL onto my work, I have taken rights
>away from myself.  I have not.  As the owner of the work, I can make
>another copy with a different copyright agreement attached.

As I pointed out in another article, you can't.

If you try making another copy with a different copyright agreement attached,
or even another _almost_ copy, or even another program which is mostly, but
not totally, different, all any would-be pirate has to do is say "whoops, you
used some lines of code from a GPL program in that, so the whole thing is
under the GPL".  How are you going to prove you took the code from a common
(non-GPL) source, instead of copying from the GPL to the non-GPL program?
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Turkey Casserole
    that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ...  Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
   -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)