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Re: GPL and NDA
- To: carlo at alinoe dot com (Carlo Wood)
- Subject: Re: GPL and NDA
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:08:25 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com (Bernard Dautrevaux),rms at gnu dot org ('rms at gnu dot org'), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,license-discuss at opensource dot org
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> Imho, it works as follows:
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> anything + GPL can not be distributed unless it is first GPL-ed.
You are confused here. GPL is not a property of the software, but
a license you grant to the entity that you give the software to.
So to satisfy the terms of the GPL, is is sufficient for B to grant
a GPL license for the modified code to A when it delivers its work.