Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 00:46:08 06/21/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 12:18:51, Martin Andersen2 wrote: >On June 20, 2005 at 11:01:43, Cesar Contreras wrote: > > >> >>Seems fair to me Fabien can make the switch whenever he wants. I'm simply not >>sure if this agree with GPL rules. > >Yes, Fabien can change the license of his code to a closed one. >What he cannot do is to stop the already released GPL code. > >This means Fabien can sell his Fruit 2.1 (who would buy it ?), but >he can also do changes to the code and not release the source to >the public. > >Martin. But there's another side of the coin. Fabien has all rights to close newer versions of his Fruit engine. However, because Fruit2.1 is GPL-ed already, someone else can further develop Fruit2.1. If that person is more talented than Fabien (hard to imagine, but possible ...) then theoretically the GPL-ed version could be stronger than Fabien's closed version. Of course, that person will never have rights to close the sources! Robert
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