[GNUz] Moving ...

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sat, October 15, 2005 10:54 am, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:33 AM, rik-Xandros-test wrote:
>>> That could be the IDS system Nessus
>>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/1853248&tid=172&tid=117
>> Is that "/exploiting a loophole in the GPL/" or just plain
>> unscrupulous?
>
> Neither, by a long shot.
> The company owned the copyright, and therefore have the right to
> license under any terms they liked.
>
> Despite being GPLd, the community had not submitted any significant
> patches or functionality, and therefore the code was not jointly owned.
> This meant that no-one else had to be consulted about the license
> change.
>
> Contrast with the Linux kernel - there are so many copyright holders
> involved in that collection of code, any relicensing would have to get
> agreement from every single one of them (even the ones that are
> uncontactable). This is seen as a level of protection, because Linus
> cannot "go bad" without rewriting huge portions.
>
> On the other hand, it will probably prevent the kernel from moving to
> GPLv3, for the same reasons ...
>
> -jim
>
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...exactly what we're finding as well. We get loads of suggestions about
how to make stuff better or will you support this as well, but as for a
single code fix/enhancement? Nope.

Steve



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