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  Re: Licensing, Ethics, Open Source and Philosophy  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 20 Jul 2008 19:17:47
Message: <4883c79b@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> Unless the publisher explicitly grants permission for that type of
> distribution as a one-off. 

That can't be easily done with software with lots of authors. If I
contribute code to the Linux kernel under the GPL, can Linus Torvalds give
an exception to a specific person to redistribute the kernel under
different terms, including that tiny bit of code I contributed?


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