On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Wim Godden wrote:
>
> > Well, I have a very interesting read for everyone on this list :
> >
> > And finally my reply :
> > "Code that has been released as GPL, can never be released as closed source
> > later. Therefor, you are legally obliged to release the code.
>
> Bruzzzz. (See below for how it /can/).
>
> > Additionally, you don't own the full source of freeVSD. Part of the source code
> > was written by non-Idaya-employees.
>
> Wim, IANAL, however; If they own the rights (in the same way that the FSF
> get ownership transferred to them for their software); then they are free to
> licence it under whatever licence they wish....
>
> They own it; therefore their choice.
I agree.
> For past examples, of stuff that was re-licenced from the [L]GPL,; the
> Mesa3d library was re-licenced to the BSD two-clause so that it could be
> intergrated into XFree4. (So we all get to Play Quake3...). And
> incidently, this change of licence received the blessing of RMS.
>
> As for merging contributions from outside parties... I would presume that
> Idaya have been careful in getting the permission from any contributors
> *and* having the rights transfer to Idaya. Otherwise, they are likely to
> find problems.
If they haven't, then the significance of code written by non-members of
Idaya could be easily removed since it is likely to amount to only a few
lines of code.
I, myself, signed a Past and Future Changes Disclaimer.
Nick.
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