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Subject: Re: Legal questions about GNU GPL

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:02:09 09/17/05

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On September 17, 2005 at 10:51:04, Norm Pollock wrote:

>I do not understand much of the legalities of open source code under the GNU GPL
>licensing.
>
>Fruit 2.1 had open source code. Now most of that code is going to be used
>commercially with closed code. How is that legally possible?

Because Fabien is the author of Fruit and he is allowed to do it when other are
not allowed to do it.

>
>Toga II used a lot of Fruit 2.1 open source code and it itself is open source
>code. Can the author of Toga II use parts of this code to make his own closed
>code commercial program?
>
>-Norm

The answer to the second question is no.
Only fabien can use the code of Fruit in a commercial version.

Uri



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