On Friday 08 September 2006 12:22 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 07/09/06 10:42 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 07-Sep-06, at 10:18 AM, jtd wrote: > > >No. The gpl (or any copyright) can be revoked. But the earlier > > > release and use is protected and cannot be revovked. so u can > > > fork the earlier version and continue. > > > > revoker can prevent you from forking also afaik. > > Erm, no./ Previous versions of the code stay under whatever license > they were released under, and that won't change. The license only > changes for a newer codebase.
Actually yes. That is the whole point of revoking the licence. But unless the revocation is for violation of the original terms of licenece the author has nearly nil chance of revoking. He can always change the licenec of new release minus anybody else's gpld contribs. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
