Re: SFLC is SOL

[Hyman Rosen]

On 3/16/2010 4:39 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> The "unadorned" copyright doesn't, (does) not put restrictions on terms
> and conditions of licensing of the new copyright in a derivative work
> (which is exclusive right and which belongs to the author of derivative
> work) "to all third parties" thereby creating a right against the world
> governed under state law of contract akin to the GPL.

The author of a derivative work may license his copyright
to anyone he wishes in any way he wishes, and having the
work be covered by the GPL doesn't change that. However,
this license is useless without a matching license in the
original, because copying and distributing the derivative
work requires permission from the original rights holder
too.