Re: [OS:N:] GPL Question
Bill Kendrick <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:02:00PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: <snip> > > Now another question you should be asking is can other people take your > software and release it with changes as something other than GPL? Unless you provide them the rights/permission to do so, of course. The aforementioned game that I'm re-licensing is soley my work. Noone else contributed to the codebase that I'm re-licensing. If someone HAD, I would need to get THEIR permission to re-license their code (and in all likelyhood, it would mean an exchange of funds, much like I'm getting for relicensing my own code). It's really no different from 'proprietary'/'commercial' licensing between companies. I doubt, unless they had a clause in the original license that provided for it, that a company can revoke the 'old' license for a piece of software across the board. Just like I can't revoke the GPL license from any of my old code. It's out there for good! -bill! _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>