>Linux Lingam wrote: > >dear all, > >i understand that an author owns the copyright to a software. under >this 'ownership' the author may then decide to GPL the software, >allowing others more flexible access to the software, under the >restrictions imposed by the GPL. This also allows contributors to add >their own code or further develop the software. >Yet, can the original author choose to un-gpl a software? i have seen >some extremely rare instances over the past few years of software that >were released under the GPL, and then retracted into a proprietory >license. > That got me thinking.. the GPL says that GPL'd software can be distributed under the GNU GPL version 2 OR "at your option, any later version"! So does that mean that FSF can someday release a GPL version 3 with properietary clauses and effectively un-GPL in spirit, ALL the free software in the world? They can even grant FSF all ownership rights to all GPL'd software and turn into the next MS! Scary!
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