On 06/21/2011 09:56 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I have some friends that are from GNU and it does matter if the code > has been changed using a previous code as reference. It is a difficult > stuff to be discussed in jury but it can happen. > > The only safe way to avoid this is to reconstruct the code without > this previous version as base. It doesn't seems as a valid option for > FreeRDP case since we have based the code on a fork from RDesktop > (like it or not) and thus most of basis (not the new code) is > derivated work. > > It seems that the only way to solve this is Cendio and their people > allowing us to change license. Start from scratch seems stupid for me. > >
Absolutely not true. If you took a fork of a codebase, any codebase, and you got all the authors permissions save a few to release their code under a new license. And you then removed the code from the codebase for those authors who did not want to change the license on their work in the codebase. The result is then a clean codebase under a new license. If this were not true all of the commercial code offerings that also have an open-source GPL base would not be able to exist. Many of these have had to excise some portions of code for authors who did not want their contribution in the commercial offering. And once you have excised that code and have a clean codebase you can make any further modifications you wish to the new clean codebase and they would be under the new license. Regards, Gerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
