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Subject: Re: can it go commercial?

Author: Eric Oldre

Date: 11:53:27 06/20/05

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On June 20, 2005 at 14:43:53, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?
>>
>>if so can anybody make it commercial or just fabien?
>>
>>in my undersanding (point me wrong), fruit not longer belongs to fabien because
>>it's GPL.
>
>MySQL is GPL and it is commercial.
>Redhat Linux is GPL and it is commercial.
>
>So there does not seem to be any outstanding barrier that I see.

Dann,
I understand that Fabien could still go commercial. But the
question that I don't understand is: Could Fabien, if he wants
create future non-GPL'd versions of Fruit?

My understanding of the GPL would be that once a program is
GPL'd, it can never go closed source.

(my thoughts http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?432338)

However, others here have said that Fabien retains the copyright
and thus still has the option to create future non-GPL versions
of Fruit.

Do you happen to know whether this is legally permitted?

Thanks as always,
Eric



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