On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:20 +0530, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > 2011/1/6 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>: > > There is also a large class of people who > > are taken in by this propaganda and think that there is only one > open > > source license foolishly license their software under the GPL and > only > > realise their mistake too late. > > If you are the copyright holder of the code, there is nothing stopping > you from changing the license. I don't see why the above scenario is a > "mistake" (unless you are talking of "oh shit! I shouldn't have > allowed the world to see my source code"). > >
no, rather "oh shit! now that I have accepted these contributions, I cannot use them in my internal company code without a lot of headache". Or "Oh shit! this license does not suit my business model". -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
