On 02/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > 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 > >
Back in the day, this was known as "bait and switch". And it's still quite alive today, even in the new digital age. Regards, Gerry _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
