In <[email protected]>, on 01/02/2009
at 10:08 AM, Mark Post <[email protected]> said:
>Probably not true, assuming the two developers are the only ones who have
>contributed to the package, and they agree on selling the rights to it.
Once they've distributed the software under the GPL they can't stop others
from distributing it. However, if they have permission from all of the
contributors then they can certainly issue new versions under a different
license. Unless someone was willing to maintain the old fork, it might not
be as attractive as the new one.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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