Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:15:35PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
You fail to mention whether they retained the copyright to their
contributions or assigned them to someone else (presumably, whoever
relicensed the code). If it's the latter, tough luck.
Actually the license states:
... retains copyright to all of the xxxxx system, and therefore
can grant, at its sole discretion, the ability for .....
to create proprietary or Open Source (but non-GPL'd)
modules which may be dynamically linked at runtime with the portions
of ......
That limits the rights they retained. If they had addtionally retained
the rights to grant non GPL licenses to the system itself, then they
could, but they specificaly did not.
The license you're refering to has nothing to do with this.
A contributor either assigned his copyrights to the compnay (I assume it's a company) in question or she didn't. If they
did they specifically signed a document that says that they give up all rights in the contribution adn so have nothing
to complaina bout, if they did not they can sue the company. What are you complaining about? (and which company is it,
anyway?)
They also in other places rant on about how much they love and support the
GPL, and their product will remain GPL, and so on.
I can perfectly see why a company that gets it's revenue from sales of licenses other then the GPL will really and truly
love the concept of the GPL and personally, so long as you can either use the software under the GPL or pay up to get a
non GPL license I see no moral problem with that - consider it "tax on Freedom challanged corporations", does that make
you feel better? :-)
Gilad
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