---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A070C7F01C8; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:25:04 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <9.00CC108E@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:54:50 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 3168 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:54:44 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 7692; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:54:22 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-3.sun.com [192.18.98.34] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:54:22 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by brmea-mail-3.sun.com Received: from jurassic.eng.sun.com ([129.146.88.31]) by brmea-mail-3.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0SGsKbs029847 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:54:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from Sun.Com (viper.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.88.132]) by jurassic.eng.sun.com (8.12.11+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i0SGsKVU274252 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:54:20 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <19A86815-5160-11D8-9E8E-000A95E5DF26@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4017E93C.2000700@Sun.Com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:54:20 -0800 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: John Plocher Organization: Systems Architecture Council Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <19A86815-5160-11D8-9E8E-000A95E5DF26@mac.com> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856141 William Chops Westfield wrote: > As an interesting question, can the AUTHOR of code that was > released under GPL ever change the license terms? Of course they can. *They* are the copyright owner. They can't do it retroactively for existing stuff (i.e., they can't change the terms we agreed to last month), but they can always release the same stuff/newer stuff under a different license. Much of the OpenSrc stuff is licensed under more than one license - artistic-vs-apache is one common trend. -John -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics .