Re: [OS:N:] GPL Question

[Bill Kendrick <nbs sonic net>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:02:00PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote:
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> 
> Now another question you should be asking is can other people take your
> software and release it with changes as something other than GPL?  

Unless you provide them the rights/permission to do so, of course.

The aforementioned game that I'm re-licensing is soley my work.
Noone else contributed to the codebase that I'm re-licensing.

If someone HAD, I would need to get THEIR permission to re-license their
code (and in all likelyhood, it would mean an exchange of funds, much
like I'm getting for relicensing my own code).

It's really no different from 'proprietary'/'commercial' licensing
between companies.

I doubt, unless they had a clause in the original license that provided
for it, that a company can revoke the 'old' license for a piece of software
across the board.  Just like I can't revoke the GPL license from any
of my old code.  It's out there for good!



-bill!