From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 18 02:07:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA23686 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 02:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.37.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA23681 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 02:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com ([207.211.82.14]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA09244 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 02:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA17680; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:07:32 GMT Message-ID: <19970218020731.GM57190@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 02:07:31 -0800 From: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL References: <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Feb 18, 1997 09:50:33 +0100 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > 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 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. :) So in theory, the author of every little patch needs to be consulted? Hum... :-) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)