[PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43
> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 8:56 PM
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Hans-Christoph
> Steiner wrote:
> 
> > I mean no disrespect.  When you released
> 'unauthorized' under the GPL, you made a promise to your
> users that 'unauthorized' would remain free software. 
> That is the meaning of the GPL.
> 
> That's not the meaning of it.
> 
> The meaning of the GPL (or any other public license) is
> that once you put something under the GPL, *that* version of
> the software can be used under the same license forever.
> However, the owners of the copyright can choose any other
> license they want for the existing software as long as they
> don't make them conflict (users get to pick the license they
> want in that case).
> 
> The owners of the copyright can also stop distributing the
> GPL version, and make a series of versions under whichever
> other license, and that's why the FSF considers forking to
> be a most critical right : the right to continue to update
> a free version of any software that has been free.
> 
> You know this, and in effect, by volunteering as the
> maintainer of «Unauthorized», you are forking it, or
> announcing a pending fork (waiting for a diff to apply).

So did the software in question _always_ have the conflicting 
licenses, or was it originally just GPL and in a subsequent version 
the other license was added? 

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