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In Reply to this Note From: <Bob Beck>
>   I have been informed by mail that I am in error, and the GPL is not
>binding to the author. Obviously in this case, I can see that someone
>who has the intention of releasing a proprietary version of a
>previously copylefted package can do so, provided all parties who own
>the code agree. If the author has not accepted any contributions to
>the code other than his own this would seem to be fairly easy. Is this
>something that the FSF would be seeking to prevent? Can it be prevented? 

The FSF would like to eliminate the copyright law, but they can only
do that through the courts and by petitioning Congress.

Meanwhile, it is impossible to take an author's copyrights from him
without permission. The use of the GPL with Ghostscript constitutes
permission to use it under the terms of the GPL.  It does not release
all rights to the work to the public domain, because that would make
the copyright unenforcable.

The answer is NO, it cannot be prevented under the current legal code.
-David-

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> Bob Beck, beck@cs.ualberta.ca  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. Canada.
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