Requesting informations about possible gpl violation

[Laurent]

Thanks for your answer.

What I don't understand is how someone can own the copyright of a
copylefted license software.

Laurent

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Joseph Heenan <joseph at heenan.me.uk> wrote:
> laurent at vromman.org wrote:
>>
>> Now, there is a new version of this software (version 2), which is not GPL
>> anymore. This is a "semi-opensource"-homemade-licence as they call it which
>> doesn't seem to be GPL compliant at all. The same developpers have done both
>> versions (but since GPL is copylefted, I don't think that changes anything).
>
> If the original developers own the copyright for all the code (or have the
> permission of the copyright owners) they are free to re-license it however
> they like.
>
> The previous versions will continue to be distributable under the existing
> license; in similar situations in the past open source projects have forked
> off using the last publicly available GPL version.
>
> Joseph
>



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