Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:12:04 06/20/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 14:53:27, Eric Oldre wrote: >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? Don't know. In any case, Fruit is the biggest phenomenon since Ruffian. Let's enjoy it. No, wait. It's the biggest phenomenon since Ruffian and also open source. Ummm... Wow. >Thanks as always, >Eric
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