[TriLUG] cdrecord

[Jeremy Portzer]

The author could certainly choose to release future versions/revisions
of the code under a license other than the GPL, yes.  And authors can
release code simultaneously under other licenses.    But one of the
whole points of the GPL is that authors cannot restrict modification and
redistribution.  

The question I guess is whether the terms listed in the code comment are
considered a modification to the license or not.  I don't think you're
really allowed to modify the GPL itself.  The GPL does allow you to
limit geographical redistribution in section (8), but I don't see any
other provisions that allow you to adjust how it works, other than a
court order.

--Jeremy


On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:24, Dan Monjar wrote:
> Does publishing under GPL cause the author to lose "control" of his code 
> such that they can't make restricitions that aren't in conflict with the 
> GPL... IOW, just because the GPL doesn't require it can the author not?
> 
> --On Tuesday, April 08, 2003 04:10:38 PM -0400 Jeremy Portzer 
> <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:07, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> >
> >> open_cdrdefaults()
> >> {
> >>  /*
> >>   * WARNING you are only allowed to change this filename if you also
> >>   * change the documentation and add a statement that makes clear
> >>   * where the official location of the file is why you did choose a
> >>   * nonstandard location and that the nonstandard location only refers
> >>   * to inofficial cdrecord versions.
> >>   *
> >>   * I was forced to add this because some people change cdrecord without
> >>   * rational reason and then publish the result. As those people
> >>   * don't contribute work and don't give support, they are causing extra
> >>   * work for me and this way slow down the cdrecord development.
> >>   */
> >>   return (defltopen("/etc/default/cdrecord"));
> >> }
> >>
> >
> > But I also noticed this "gem":
> > 	$rpm -qi cdrecord | grep License
> > 	License: GPL
> >
> > So doesn't the license of the software take precedence?  The GPL doesn't
> > require accurate documentation or the other things mentioned in the
> > above comment.  Though I agree with the cdrecord author that it does
> > make a lot of sense to update the documentation and indicate the reasons
> > for the change.  But it's not "required."
> >
> > --Jeremy
> >
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> Daniel Monjar
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> bioMérieux, Inc.
> Durham, NC US
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