Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: APC, Your company is making a mistake! | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 02:43:50 -0600 | From | Ken Pizzini <> |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:35:40 -0400 (EDT), Majdi Abbas <abbas@cdtelecom.com> wrote: >Justin A. Kolodziej wrote: >| As soon as you or anyone else can explain to me WHY he can still distribute >| the binaries without source being made available, if in fact this is the case. > > The author can change the license the code is distributed under.
Actually, the copyright holder, who may or may not be the author, has the right to distribute the work in whatever manner they please. The GPL is a *license* which the copyright holder is blanket-granting to others specifying the conditions under which said others are permitted to redistribute their work. Also, the copyright holder is free to offer other distribution licenses, whether blanket ("anyone may...") or specific to one individual ("John Smith, IV may..."). Or to put the work in the public domain. Or to sell (or otherwise transfer) the copyright to some new owner.
(IANAL. YMMV. SAR. etc.) --Ken Pizzini
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