Hallo, B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
Since versions were freely distributed this does mean that any of us would be free to continue to develop it as a fork from your old free versions? As long as they do not include code from your new non-free versions?
Anyhow just looking for a little clarification.
pdogg as it is in CVS is released as LGPL, so everyone is free to create and distribute modifications as long as they follow that license. I don't know if the license in Olaf's "commercial" version has changed, but as primary author Olaf has every right to change the license for newer versions. However he would not be allowed to include rama's changes into a non-free version unless rama would allow this (which I doubt he would do.)
The actual question for us now is: should we add the new changes into CVS and create a "fork"? IMO if Olaf wants to keep his newer code "non-free" then in fact we already somehow have a fork.
(Note: I use the term "non-free" in the Debian sense.)
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