Re: How long is linux going to be free ?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:19:38AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:45:15AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The copyright holders may always do this at their discretion, since the
> > authority to issue licences rests entirely with them. If I release a
> > piece of software under licence X, I am not bound by the terms of
> > licence X. The same applies to a group of copyright holders if they all
> > agree.
>
> They had to get thier codebase from somewhere. You know, like the
> prior version which was GPLed...
Were they the authors of that codebase, or did the authors of that
codebase pass copyright to them? You say "copyright holders", so I
assumed one of those must be true.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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