Re: [License-discuss] Creating GPL code
As copyright holder you can license your stuff however you want and give yourself whatever permissions you want. But if you want it to be useful to others, you have to make sure that they receive everything that they need to take the GPLed project and run with it. So, for instance, if you've just cut and pasted code here and there, they don't need to know where it came from. But if you include some other library of yours unchanged, that library should be distributable by them under the GPL. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Ryan wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a question I'm unable to confirm the answer to and was hoping someone > on this list could kindly lend me their expertise in answering it. I'm a > freeware software coder and publish simple tools for anyone to download. > Recently I've been working on a larger project and because of its size I > would like to license it under the GPL for others to freely build upon it as > they see fit. From what I understand of the GPL if you use GPL code in a > separate project that separate project must be licensed under GPL too. Now > what I've done is sort of the opposite and borrowed code from freeware tools > I've written not licensed under GPL and want to use the borrowed code in a > GPL project. My question is as the copyright holder of the code do I have > to release all my other projects for which I borrowed/reused code from under > the GPL? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > ___ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > ___ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
Re: [License-discuss] Creating GPL code
Ryan scripsit: > My question is as the copyright holder of the code do I have to > release all my other projects for which I borrowed/reused code from > under the GPL? No, of course not. Software licenses control what other people can do with your code. Nothing limits what you can do with your own code. That said, why not go ahead and release the source to your freeware programs? It can't hurt you in any way (unless your code is full of horrible, in which case I suppose it might damage your reputation as a competent programmer). -- Not to perambulate John Cowan the corridors http://www.ccil.org/~cowan during the hours of repose in the boots of ascension. --Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel ___ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
[License-discuss] Creating GPL code
Hello All, I have a question I'm unable to confirm the answer to and was hoping someone on this list could kindly lend me their expertise in answering it. I'm a freeware software coder and publish simple tools for anyone to download. Recently I've been working on a larger project and because of its size I would like to license it under the GPL for others to freely build upon it as they see fit. From what I understand of the GPL if you use GPL code in a separate project that separate project must be licensed under GPL too. Now what I've done is sort of the opposite and borrowed code from freeware tools I've written not licensed under GPL and want to use the borrowed code in a GPL project. My question is as the copyright holder of the code do I have to release all my other projects for which I borrowed/reused code from under the GPL? Thanks, Ryan___ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
