In a message dated: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:33:08 EDT
Mark Komarinski said:
>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.
Well, I suppose, but wouldn't a "new" version have to be a complete
rewrite and not include any code previously released under the GPL?
If it did include code previously released under the GPL, wouldn't
the viral nature of the GPL constitute that as a derivative work?
Additionally, say you are allowed to "revoke" the license for future
versions of the code, that doesn't mean that the versions previously
released under the GPL are now "revoked" does it? Those are still
out there and free, therefore, anyone can take that code and perpetuate
it with modifications, right?
--
Seeya,
Paul
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