Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:28:50 +0100 | From | Jon K Hellan <> | Subject | Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers |
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D. Hazelton wrote: (as is the GPL - if you release code under > the GPL you no longer have a legal right to it. Note the following text that > appears in the GPL: > > " We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and > (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, > distribute and/or modify the software." > --IE: Once you release the code under the GPL, it becomes the *copyrighted* > *property* of the FSF and you are just another person that the GPL is applied > to.
"We" means "whoever is issuing" the license. I.e. you, if it's your work, and you didn't reassign it to somebody else.
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