Greetings.
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 16:04, Michael Kjorling wrote:
On 2005-01-25 15:27 +0100, psychonaut@nothingisreal.com wrote:
Gnomovision is released under the GNU General Public License, with the additional proviso that for any modifications to the source code which you publish, you agree to grant Vice, Inc. a perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicence, and distribute said modifications (or portions thereof) either on an unmodified basis, or with other modifications, as source code or binary code or as part of a larger work.
IANAL & Co, but isn't this essentially what the GPL already says?
No, the proviso grants a general licence for Vice, Inc. to use the contributions as it sees fit, whereas the GPL grants Vice, Inc. a restricted licence which allows it to republish the contributions only if the source code is made available.
In essence I'm trying to come up with a simpler version of the Netscape Public Licence without having to rewrite it.
Regards, Tristan