> 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?
If you are the sole author of a piece of code it's yours to license
under whatever terms suit you. You can even offer different licenses
to different consumers.
Once a particular release has been licensed to at least one consumer
under the GPL, the code in that release is Free. All of the "viral"
business applies to downstream developers. There is nothing in the
license that forces the original author to make subsequent or parallel
releases Free, provided that no contributions have been accepted from
outside the owning entity.
Don't worry - once a particular bit of code is freed, it can't be
unfreed without a court decision indicating that it infringes somebody
else's property rights. This would indicate that it wasn't yours to
license in the first place...
ccb
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