Feedback on free software licence requested

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Tue Jan 25 15:04:45 UTC 2005


On 2005-01-25 15:27 +0100, psychonaut at 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?

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