On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Sure, but the ownership is only of historic interest when anyone has > the right to fork code and redistribute. And even the owners could > not do anything different unless they can all be identified and reach > an agreement - at least for any individual thing that constitutes a > 'work' in the copyright sense. > I'm pretty sure the GPL allows you to fork the work. What you can't do is package it up and distribute it without the source code. I'm pretty sure what Charlie is saying is that the copyright holder of the GPL work can build proprietary works off the GPLed work and distribute it without providing the source code. This seems to make sense to me. Greg
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