RFH: GPLv3

Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com
Thu Jul 12 16:02:00 GMT 2007


David Edelsohn wrote:
>>>>>> Bernd Schmidt writes:
> 
> Bernd> I don't think that's true.  Given that all copyrights are assigned to 
> Bernd> the FSF, the FSF could license these changes as GPLv2+ (in 4.2) and 
> Bernd> GPLv3+ (in 4.3 and up) without a problem.  The original author's wishes 
> Bernd> do not come into play.
> 
> 	Wrong.  The original author can license his or her own code to
> others using different licenses.

Under the license assignment, both FSF and the author can
license the code under different licenses.

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