A colleague just asked me the following question, any thoughts from the list?
Can the OWNER of the copyright in software code that has been released under a GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) change its mind and take the software *private*
(any future versions would be proprietary
Ralph Bloemers wrote:
A colleague just asked me the following question, any thoughts from the list?
Can the OWNER of the copyright in software code that has been released under a GPL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) change its mind and take the software
*private* (any future
Title: Use of GPL without any intention to enforce
Gentle people,
IANAL.
Is there any advantage to releasing software under GPL if you
have no intention of ever enforcing the license?
GPL projects seem to require some form of licensing in order
for connected software to be
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Samuel Reynolds wrote:
The copyright owner can license the code under any terms he likes,
or none at all.
He can license the code under different terms to different people.
He can license the code under different terms to the same people at
different times.
Or, as in
Brian DeSpain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes - but the previous versions licensed under the GPL remain GPLd and
development can continue on the code.
Can you explain why this is the case?
In reality, the code would most likely *fork,* leaving one strand open
and the other proprietary.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Eric Jacobs wrote:
Brian DeSpain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes - but the previous versions licensed under the GPL remain GPLd and
development can continue on the code.
Can you explain why this is the case?
Because the license contains no provisions for revocation. Thus,
As everyone says, IANAL.
As I understand what you said, you want to make the code availble to
everyone (that's how I took the statement that you weren't interested
in enforcing the GPL). I would recommend the BSD license (without
advertising clause, of course) because it seems to meet your
From: "Ralph Bloemers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can the OWNER of the copyright in software code that has been released under
a GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) change its mind and take the
software *private* (any future versions would be proprietary and released
only under typical object
begin Chris Sloan quotation:
Also, some organizations (like Debian, for example) are complete
sticklers for licenses. If someone wanted to use your code with a
non-GPL'ed program, these sticklers would refuse to reject or
distribute the program, even if you had intended that to be okay.
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