Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 09:45:36 06/20/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 10:32:33, Cesar Contreras wrote: >I'm not sure, in my understanding every derivated work from Fruit must be GPL. > >can it go commercial? Yes, it can. >if so can anybody make it commercial or just fabien? Anyone can sell fruit 2.1 as long as he/she obeys the GPL license. >in my undersanding (point me wrong), fruit not longer belongs to fabien because >it's GPL. Wrong. Fruit is still under Fabien's copyright. There are two issues here: (a) Copyright, and (b) License. Fabien may release fruit under any license, but he still holds the copyright. Therefore he may change the license any time he wishes to. However, when you downloaded fruit 2.1, you got a license. That license allows you to sell Fruit 2.1 as long as you obey the license. Now assume Fabien elects to release Fruit 2.1 again under some other license. Assuming that you do not download the newer version, GPL will still continue to apply on _your copy_, because _that was the license when you got it_, and you can still sell it! However, anybody else who uses the version with the new license has to abide by it. I hope I have not created more confusion. bye, Pallav
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