On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:52 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> 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?

That's why I said "publisher" rather than "author". :-)

Jim

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