"Ken Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lets deal with this one at a time. My first question is this-who does the > code belong to once it is GPL'ed? What entity, person, group, troll, > whoever owns the code?
It belongs to the copyright holder. I've written free software myself. I own the copyright on that software, and the files are so labelled. I've put the software under the GPL. That doesn't mean that I don't own it. It just means that other people are permitted to do certain things with it. (This answer assumes the current intellectual property regime. It's possible to make a different answer philosophically, but practically speaking today the copyright holder owns the code.) Ian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
