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[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>  
>> Actually, they can't change the code that is already released. Correct.
>> You can't retroactively change the license.
>>
>> But...
>> In the future they can chose to release the code under any license they
>> want. Including the Canonical Draconian Sell Your Soul License. I don't
>> expect them to do that, just as I don't expect the FSF to do such a thing.
> 
> And if that happened, anyone can take the release prior to when that
> happens and make a new fork that's only under the GPL.  I don't think
> it's likely either.
> 

Well, some might object to their GPL code ending up in a closed-source
project. And look at what happened with Sourceforge.

Still, I trust Canonical enough.

John
=:->


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