On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, John Calcote wrote:
As someone has already mentioned, the rules of the GPL *ONLY* apply to non-originators. The purpose of the GPL is to protect the rights of the originator. The originator of software under GPL has MORE rights than the GPL grants. He or she has all rights to license any way he or she wishes.
You clearly have this reversed. The purpose of the GPL is to protect the rights of the recipient.
The purpose of copyright in general is to protect the originator but that is not what GPL is all about.
The true copyright holder (often difficult to figure out) has the right to distribute the code under some other license.
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