Jost, Oktay, Avi - thanks, I've read the FAQs in the past but this had
escaped me. All seems to be (c) Mindbright, so no problems.
Thanks for the explanations.
- Thomas.
At 15:22 28/09/2001 +0200, Jost Schenck wrote:
>There are good FAQs on www.gnu.org regarding the GPL and if I remember
>right, they address this issue. This may be off-topic to the list, so I
>don't want to get in-depth, but to make one thing clear: if they have
>written all the code themselves and have not incorporated third-party
>gpl code they can always change the license for future versions. The
>mentioned clause of the GPL does in fact not contradict this, and even
>if it did, the clause would be void (or non-effective) in almost all
>countries with a modern copyright law. There are quite some companies
>that license their GPL-code under different licenses, too.
>-Jost.
>
>Thomas Nichols wrote:
> >
> > At 23:53 27/09/2001 -0700, Avi Cherry wrote:
> > >>Yes, the site says so. But this is interesting! Once GPLed code cannot be
> > >>made non-GPL later on even by the original author.
> > >
> > >Depends how you look at it. They can't prevent earlier versions from
> > >being re-distributed according to the GPL, but they can re-licence the
> > >code any way they want for newer versions, preventing IT from being
> > >redistributed. The original author still owns the code, and can licence
> > >it any way they want, as many different ways as they want.
> >
> > Hmmm, I'm not sure it _does_ depend how you look at it. From the GPL
> > included (file "COPYING") with the MindTerm v1.0 code, section 2:
> >
> > b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
> > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
> > parties under the terms of this License.
> >
> > So unless MindTerm v2 is a complete rewrite (which it may be), they'll be
> > in breach of the GPL. Which is probably not a good idea.
> >
> > - Thomas.
> >
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