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From: "swhiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"
> Food for thought:
> if the OOo code base were GPL'd, then IBM's work would be
> available to everybody
Isn't it the case that
if the OOo code base HAD BEEN EXCLUSIVE GPLd, then ....
If OOo were released under GPL _now_, it wouldn't mean that IBM had to
release, because they already have the product under a different (presumably
non-revokable) licence. They would only have to release if they took stuff
from a new, GPL-only, codebase.
... Actually, re-reading, I think that's what you meant :-) but the way it
was written I parsed as "if we released under OOo NOW, then IBM would have
to release....", which AIUI, is not the case.
M.
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