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[John A Meinel]

Anthony David wrote:
> 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.
> 

My understanding is that Sourceforge was an open source project, which
was very difficult to configure. And the company developing it offered
'support' to get it up and running.
Their improvements to make it easier to configure were kept closed.
I believe the official open source version is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/alexandria-dev

But it doesn't really match what is actually run on Sourceforge.net.

I also think http://savannah.gnu.org/, the GNU version of sourceforge
was based on an early version, but doesn't have all the features because
most of those have not been released.

This was a few years ago that I heard about this, so the details may
have changed. But it was one of the major criticisms of SF, that they
would host all of these open source projects, but not open their own
source code.

John
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