You can "revoke" the GPL and put newer versions under a different license.
Best example of this is the OGG Vorbis group, which went from a GPL
license to a BSD license (with RMS's grudging blessing). This
was to allow hardware vendors to quickly add OGG support in hardware
without thinking that the GPL was going to trample their IP.
-Mark
Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:57:35 EDT
> "Tony Lambiris" said:
>
> None of this matters with the GPL, since you can't revoke. It
> specifically states that all derivative works are protected.
> Therefore, even if the people who wrote ip[fwadm|chains|tables]
> wanted to revoke the GPL, they couldn't, since any future code they
> wrote based on the previous work would be covered under the GPL as a
> derivative work. Of course they could branch off and write
> non-GPL'ed code based on the original and only release binaries and
> maybe no one would know, but that's really not revoking the old
> license, that's just violating the GPL. The old code is still out
> there, and others will continue to work on it under the GPL.
>
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