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Re: Exodus Down


From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil () semihuman com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:22:50 -0400


I'm presuming we're talking about BSD-style licenses here - with the GPL, 
AFAIK, the code cannot be "closed" once it's open, as any derivitive works 
must also be released under the GPL.

-C

More than one nominally open-source project has switched to a commercial
codebase by changing it's licensing terms for a new release, and allowing
people to do whatever they want (including forking a different branch)
from the last public code release under open license. One example familiar
to most of those here would be GateD.

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