Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Releasing source code

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:39:48 10/09/00

Go up one level in this thread


On October 08, 2000 at 15:01:27, Oliver Roese wrote:

>>As the copyright holder, you can use whatever license you want for the
>>versions you release, so using the GPL will not affect what you can
>>do for future versions. You can even distribute the version you
>>published under GPL with a different license if you want to. But only
>>_you_ will be able to do this, the rest of the people have to use GPL
>>or nothing.
>>
>
>I dont believe that this is so.
>At least i hope it is not so. I think it is against the spirit of free software.
>Why do you think, that this so? Can you give a reference?

Basic copyright law. You wrote it, you own it. Distributing it
with a license does not change your copyright or the right to
distribute it under a different license.

--
GCP



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.