On Monday 08 January 2007 17:36, Yagnesh Desai wrote: > Dear Mr Shridhar; > > My understanding is that the changes need to go back to > the originator.
Not necessarily. Only if the change should be merged with the mainstream. > (That's how contribution to Linux Kernel went back to Linus > and he could add it in his next version to bring it to 2.6x.) No. You can add a feature and publish it on web, without sending it to linus. What you cannot do is call your derivative/combined work Linux since the name linux is copyrighted to linus. Copyright is still owned by an individual even if the software is under GPL. > While its up to originator to add the Delta into his next version > of software. Definitely. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
