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,
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On Thursday 12 July 2007 23:28, Linux Lingam wrote:
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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?
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