On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:32:23PM CEST, Chen Wei <weichen...@aol.com> said: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > GPL doesn't promise future freedom when someone else legally buy's the > > rights to the source and changes it. That being said, Final versions of a > > program released under GPL or another F/OSS licence allows that snapshot in > > time of the code to remain unchanged(9and thus still free for another > > developer group/project to pickup and continue) > > > > These are very real fears being expressed all over Open Source communities, > > it has been of much debate on the FreeBSD mailing lists as well as Gentoo. > > > I am confused. My impression is once a software GPLed, it will remain > GPL, all modifications/improvements/bug fixes etc. will be GPL as well. > Therefor regardless the owner, the GPLed source can not be un-GPLed.
The author (or the copyright owner, depending of the country) may change the licence at any moment. However, he cannot remove rights to people who obtained the software under GPL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110413123607.gq23...@rail.eu.org
