> As an interesting question, can the AUTHOR of code that was
> released under GPL ever change the license terms?  As in "I
> want to make this completely PD now", or perhaps "I made a big
> set of improvements and I think I can sell it now as proprietary
> code"?  The latter seems reasonably doable, assuming that the
> basis of the improved code all belongs to the author (doesn't
> contain any fed-back improvements from others.)  The former
> seems more problematic...

Under those conditions I *believe* that the author can do whatever
they want with the *new* version. The older version released under
the GPL is still GPL'ed.

I seem to recall that a request was made of an author to change the GPL
to a different license and it was done. Unfortunately I forget exacty
when and where this was...
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