From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 18 00:51:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12948 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12921 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02988 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:50:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA16624; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:50:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:50:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL References: <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Feb 17, 1997 23:51:35 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David O'Brien wrote: > Say someone has written fooquix and from version 0.01 to 0.49 it was > GPL'ed. Then they decided they wanted to make some $$$ from it. So the > next release (say 0.50) was binary only. Now obiviously 0.50 is derived > work based on the GPL'ed code of 0.49. > > Is this allowable, or once software is under GLP it stays there? It's allowable as far as the original work is concerned (since the author is free to distribute it under another copyright). It gets problematic for everything that other contributed under the terms of GPL from version 0.01 through 0.49. Either they all agree in the new copyright, or you've got a problem. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)