2006-02-02 20:29:41

by Matan Peled

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Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

David Leimbach wrote:
> But I've seen this done in GNU projects many times. There are "special
> exceptions" for things like the Objective-C runtime. These things seem
> strange to me as well but the name of the license is still GPL.
>
> See the following link:
> http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/August2002GCCUpdate/gcc3-1161/libobjc/objects.c
>
> Dave

Maybe, but I think adding a "special exception" is entirely different than just
outright removing a part of the license.

But IANAL...


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