Subject: Re: GGPL license to GPL derivative From: "Carl W. Vilbrandt" To: Turlif CC: Shigehiko SASAKI , gerry@geraldgleason.com, georgedafermos@lycos.co.uk Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 15:52:34 +0900 Reply-To: vilb@u-aizu.ac.jp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011206 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en, ja References: <3DC13AB2.6060804@u-aizu.ac.jp> <200210312303.g9VN3Ul66877@henken.dekaino.net> <3DC26CC4.8070305@turlif.org> Sasaki - Turlif is quite right. I was only being careful to answer the focus of your e-mail about the possible violation of the GPL or GGPL agreement. It would not be accurate to say never, because there may be some exceptions and things in the digital world do change fast. I also agree with you "there is no royal road to GGPL". The listing of all of the other GGPL projects was to say, that our focus is the creation of new digital code and technologies under GGPL - Carl Turlif wrote: > > > Shigehiko SASAKI wrote: > >> Dear Dr. Vilbrandt >> >> Thank you for your answer. I understand your stance. >> >> >>> The copyright holder of GPL code has the right to release his code >>> under other agreements such as GGPL. If the copyright holder agrees to >>> release under GGPL we will consider doing so, but only if it is clear >>> that it is not in violation of GPL. >> >> >> >> That's right. >> >> I agree but I think it is NOT practical at all. Because copyright >> of typical GPL code is held by a number of authors. You must obtain >> all authors's consents to release their code under GGPL. If ONLY ONE >> of them disagree, it cannot be GGPL. I know that number of copyright >> holders is too large to change license GPL to GGPL. > > > we do not plan to do this - Carl was only stating that in some special > cases we may ask for some software source to be GGPL so that we might > link to it - mostly our plan is to move forward and make new code not > convert GPL code > >> >> If I were a GGPL activist, I would write new codes from scratch. >> It is the shortest path to spread the GGPL philosophy. Richard M >> Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and other many GPL activists have done same >> way. >> >> Why not GGPL?? >> >> There is no royal road to GGPL. > > > i agree - we plan to do this > >> >> thanks >> -- >> DEKAINO Project / Shigehiko SASAKI >> ssasaki@dekaino.net > > > > -- Carl Vilbrandt, Associate Professor University of Aizu________________________________Computer Arts Lab Tsuruga, lkki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580 JAPAN phone 81-242-37-2792 / fax 81-242-37-2772 / email vilb@u-aizu.ac.jp