Re: New to Linux
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:32:23PM CEST, Chen Wei <weichen302@aol.com> said:
> 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.
The author (or the copyright owner, depending of the country) may
change the licence at any moment.
However, he cannot remove rights to people who obtained the software
under GPL.
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