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[Anthony David]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:08:09PM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> 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.

Please forgive my ignorance. What happened to Sourceforge. A link will
be sufficient.

> 
> Still, I trust Canonical enough.
> 
> John
> =:->
> 
> 



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