Re: New to Linux
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> GPL doesn't promise future freedom when someone else legally buy's the
> rights to the source and changes it. That being said, Final versions of a
> program released under GPL or another F/OSS licence allows that snapshot in
> time of the code to remain unchanged(9and thus still free for another
> developer group/project to pickup and continue)
>
> These are very real fears being expressed all over Open Source communities,
> it has been of much debate on the FreeBSD mailing lists as well as Gentoo.
>
I am confused. My impression is once a software GPLed, it will remain
GPL, all modifications/improvements/bug fixes etc. will be GPL as well.
Therefor regardless the owner, the GPLed source can not be un-GPLed.
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Chen Wei
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