[39309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exodus Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Mon Jul 2 12:23:32 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:22:50 -0400
To: lucifer@lightbearer.com
Cc: David Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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I'm presuming we're talking about BSD-style licenses here - with the GPL,
AFAIK, the code cannot be "closed" once it's open, as any derivitive works
must also be released under the GPL.
-C
> More than one nominally open-source project has switched to a commercial
> codebase by changing it's licensing terms for a new release, and allowing
> people to do whatever they want (including forking a different branch)
> from the last public code release under open license. One example familiar
> to most of those here would be GateD.
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