license & copyright patch to MELT for dual GPLv3+ & GFDL1.2+

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Sun Jun 6 23:38:00 GMT 2010


> My bad understanding of the paragraph above makes me believe that some
> FSF people (RMS?) are suggesting that a license applies to small chunks
> of a file, so that some file could have some of its lines licensed under
> GPL and other lines licensed under LGPL. I believe that my understanding
> is incorrect.

My reading is exactly the opposite: that because a file can have only
ONE license, the only way it could possibly be dual-licenced is if
EVERYTHING in the file was licensed in that way.



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