On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:08:19AM +0000, Chris Bannister wrote: > I was under the understanding that once the licence comes under the GPL then > that is it. And shouldn't other people by then have the source code.
no, the license can always be changed by those who own the code. you can even use multiple licenses at once. the only ones bound to the license are those that do not own the code. (since you don't own the code of the linux kernel, you can't change its license, but if all people that contributed to the kernel got together they could change the license) occasionally such license changes are done by removing contributed code. (tuxracer is an example) so that not everybody needs to be involved in the decision. greetings, martin. -- by the end of 2001 i'd like to find a new job anywhere in the world, doing pike development, training, roxen/caudium and unix system administration. -- pike programmer Traveling in Korea (www|db).hb2.tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at (www.archlab|iaeste).tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org mud.at is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
