slimserver can't be made "proprietary to squeezebox" because it already has been released under the GPL. Any update to the slimserver must fall under the GPL. Thus, even if slimdevices decided to pull something along the lines of what MS did against DR DOS, Roku developers can circumvent that by releasing a firmware patch (although there's no guarantee that they would which is why I haven't bought a Roku). Besides, the fact that the slimserver isn't proprietary to any particular hardware is one of the things I found the squeezebox appealing.
Just to clarify this, Slim Devices owns the copyright on a large percentage of the slimserver code. Assuming that they've kept track of 3rd party contributions (easy to do with CVS logs), they could easily relicense a future release that only contained their own code.
Of course, they cannot retroactively revoke the GPL license of previously released versions, so the world is free to fork and continue under the GPL if necessary.
Needless to say, I highly doubt this would ever happen.
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