On 24/03/03 20:07 +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > Another related issue ... when developers contribute code to foobar, > do they hand over their rights to the copyright holder for foobar? No. Your code is still copyright to you. > The original copyright holders have the right to change the license > terms on their work at any time. I assume this cannot have a > retrospective effect on the copies that have already been licensed Correct. Retrospective copyright change is not allowed.
> under the GPL. But what happens to all the contributions from other > developers? If foobar suddenly becomes propietary, does that mean all > the code in foobar can now be used for commercial purposes although it Ummm, GPLed code can always be used for commercial purposes :). The original distributors will have to remove the code that is not copyright by them. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
