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Juan J. MartÃnez wrote:
I was under the impression that once code is released under the GPL it can't be re-licensed to anything else, or was it that it couldn't be re-licensed without the permission of all the code authors?El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 22:51 +0100, Simon Waters escribiÃ:[...] In most instances you have little to gain, and potentially a lot to lose in assigning copyright. So unless there is a compelling reason keep ownership of what you write. You can always relicense code when you think you need to make more money like Oracle have just done.IANAL but I guess relicensing it isn't retroactive, is it? I mean, in case Oracle decided to not release MySQL GPLed anymore, will the already released GPL code remain free?
I'm sure this was why the Linux kernel didn't go over to the GPL 3. Could be mistaken though.
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