Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Yes, so if you want to distribute a copy under the GPL, you must agree
to its terms, which then cover the entire work.
But that does not take away any other rights you might have as to
specific parts.
Rights aren't the issue. The question is whether you agree to the GPL
terms, which specify the work-as-a-whole and what you will do with it.
But both licenses can't apply at once.
Why not? Can't you redistribute a dual-licensed package? Do you
think you have to choose between the two licenses before you're
entitled to redistribute it, and then distribute it only under one of
the licenses?
I don't see how you can agree to the GPL terms for a copy first, then
distribute a copy of some dual or other licensed part of it in a way you
just agreed not to do. So it's one or the other.
That's not the way it works. You have permissions. You can choose to
use them any time you like.
Except that you agreed not to in that 2b clause.
What might happen, in the specific case of licenses with a termination
clause, is that if you perform some action that contradicts the
license, you may have your license to the whole terminated.
If this is what you're getting at, you may indeed be onto something.
But this is beyond my knowledge of copyright history, and anything I
say further would be speculation.
It's unlikely that anyone would know which terms you used for which copy
or when you did it, but I don't see how the agreement to apply the GPL
restrictions to the work-as-a-whole ever goes away once you make it.
My point was that you don't have to agree to its terms if you have a
different license to distribute some particular portion. You can
clearly do that. Your concern is that you might then no longer have
the GPL permissions as to the whole. This concern was never clear to
me.
The point of that work-as-a-whole clause is to get you to agree to apply
restrictions to other people's work - and your own if you add any.
That's the reason the GPL is different from other licenses.
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