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Subject: Re: can it go commercial?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:09:08 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 01:01:34, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>On June 20, 2005 at 19:40:30, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
>>
>>That seems a giant hole for abuse:
>>1.  Create project with some skeleton of code
>>2.  Collect a million hours of free labor
>>3.  Go underground with all the donated effort.
>
>
>Hi Dann,
>
>This is not possible. See my reply to Eric here:
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?432383
>
>Basically, the owner of project does not own the copyright to the donated code,
>therefore he cannot change the license of the donated code.

So then only his original source belongs to him?

It seems it might be difficult to separate after time goes on.




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