Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 29, 2004 01:45 PM
Relating to the quotes from Larry Rosen, he talks about GPL'ing something and then taking it back...
Fully GPL'ing something (in this case the pieces of code that were developed under contract, if valid, and thus whose copyrights belong to Furthermore) requires it to be released or distributed to some third party.
That is, if you write a scratch program that you haven't properly finished, you may already have attached a GPL notice to it. But unless YOU, the copyright holder, have already distributed the work yourself, no other third party has received a licence to the program, and thus no one is allowed to redistribute it (since it wasn't distributed yet).
No matter if your program contained some GPL code from other project. Yes, the code from the other project remains GPL'd and no one may change that. But the new, original pieces that have not been distributed yet are not yet licenced to anyone under the GPL.
I think Larry Rosen will find his quote a little bit out of context in this article.
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Re:GPL faq
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 29, 2004 01:45 PMFully GPL'ing something (in this case the pieces of code that were developed under contract, if valid, and thus whose copyrights belong to Furthermore) requires it to be released or distributed to some third party.
That is, if you write a scratch program that you haven't properly finished, you may already have attached a GPL notice to it. But unless YOU, the copyright holder, have already distributed the work yourself, no other third party has received a licence to the program, and thus no one is allowed to redistribute it (since it wasn't distributed yet).
No matter if your program contained some GPL code from other project. Yes, the code from the other project remains GPL'd and no one may change that. But the new, original pieces that have not been distributed yet are not yet licenced to anyone under the GPL.
I think Larry Rosen will find his quote a little bit out of context in this article.
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