Re: The QPL
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 01:08:19PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> He was almost ready to use the GPL, but I pointed out that once
> people send in patches his work is no longer his alone. He can't
> turn around, modify the work and sell it without hunting through
> for all patches and re-writing them.
>
Nothing in the GPL prevents an author from selling copies of his work, even
when the work is combined with substantial patches or other software under
the GPL.
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Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.978.org
bristucc@baynetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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