What this says is any person distributing the GPL'd code after legal transfer, without a signed in writing GPL license is infringing on the new owner's copyrights.
No it doesn't. What it says is that if the author of some code transfers his ownership of the code after it was contributed to a GPL project, the new owner can't try to take it back because the nonexclusive license previals. Duh.
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Re:Teaching Educators
Posted by: ruiner on December 18, 2003 03:22 AMNo it doesn't. What it says is that if the author of some code transfers his ownership of the code after it was contributed to a GPL project, the new owner can't try to take it back because the nonexclusive license previals. Duh.
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