Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [x-posted] potentially-damaging news: Apple 'buys' CUPS

2007-07-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 13-Jul-07, at 9:41 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: GPL-ed software where a lead-programmer essentially has the right to revoke the GPL license for whatever motivations? Note that there's a difference between ``lead programmer'' and ``only programmer''. If Foo is the only programmer of a project,

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [x-posted] potentially-damaging news: Apple 'buys' CUPS

2007-07-12 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 July 2007 23:28, Linux Lingam wrote: [snip] can we expect several more of such similar 'hostile' take-overs of GPL-ed software where a lead-programmer essentially has the right to revoke the GPL license for whatever motivations?

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [x-posted] potentially-damaging news: Apple 'buys' CUPS

2007-07-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
change the license. Alternatively, she can go back to the pristine source which she originally single-handedly created and re-license that, but she loses all the innovation that the community made, and the community product remains under GPL anyway. Won't it be complex? Once a part of the