On 02/01/2011 01:45 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:28 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote: > >> On 02/01/2011 08:22 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: >> <snip>However, since 3.4 is reported to be the last >> >>>> GPL'ed version of these libraries, from now on, the community needs to >>>> do this upstream work independently from the actual upstream: >>>> >>>> http://www.nomachine.com/news-read.php?idnews=331 >>>> >> >> >> Unless NoMachine completely rewrote the NX libs from scratch they cannot >> change the license nor can they fail to provide any updates made to that >> code base. Once the GPL license is on a code base ALL derivatives that >> are distributed in any manner are covered under the GPL no matter who >> makes them. >> >> > <snip> > I'm not sure if that's true if they also own all the copyrights or at > least unlimited rights to all submitted code. Then they can simply > issue the entire code body under a different license. At least that's > the way I think it works and why some organizations are quite adamant > about having full rights to all submissions even if they do not own the > copyright - John > >
And that is exactly what some "commercial" open source companies are using to actually benefit (exploit) open source and then after the project is so far along then they adopt a closed license and screw the open source community. Regards, Gerry _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
