On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:19:38AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:45:15AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The copyright holders may always do this at their discretion, since the > > authority to issue licences rests entirely with them. If I release a > > piece of software under licence X, I am not bound by the terms of > > licence X. The same applies to a group of copyright holders if they all > > agree. > > They had to get thier codebase from somewhere. You know, like the > prior version which was GPLed...
Were they the authors of that codebase, or did the authors of that codebase pass copyright to them? You say "copyright holders", so I assumed one of those must be true. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
