On 9/1/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote: >> Chris Travers wrote: >> > Is this supplimental contract a sublicense? >> Yes, probably. However, there's still a license directly from the > author to everyone downstream, so this sublicense is irrelevant unless > modifications are made. Despite the questions of wording of the GPL3 itself, this actually makes a great deal of sense. Thanks :-) As I think about this, the only time permissions are likely to be removed are during a fork or after a dependency is removed that required a linking exception. In short this makes this mostly a formality in advance of making the changes (when it has the force of copyright law). Thanks again. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20070901/c09c0a42/attachment.html>