Re: GPL Licensing

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:03:53PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I do think that if there is a penalty involved for redistributing copies 
> of GPL'd code, binary or not, it conflicts with the 'no additional 
> restrictions' clause of the GPL.  If they apply this restriction only to 
> the non-GPL components, that would be different, but I don't know if 
> that is the case.

To start at the beginning of your confusion - it isn't a penalty. I'm entitled
not to distribute anything to you. I'm entitled to exclude aol.com from my
download site.

So its an additional service with conditions. That is quite different. Your
GPL rights are the same before or after.

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