Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:50:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL Message-ID: <Mutt.19970218095033.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Feb 17, 1997 23:51:35 -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970217185359.2982A-100000@darkstar> <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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. ;-)
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