[H-GEN] GPL or not??

[Robert Brockway]

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On 13 Feb 2003, Russell Stuart wrote:

> Australian law.  You can continue using the copies you already have, or
> course, as the law he is relying on is copyright law which controls how
> copies are made, not how the program is used.  IANAL, but I listened to
> a talk given by one at the LCA.  When he made this last point the
> audience was dumb struck for a few seconds.

This is exactly what happened to Mosix.  The licence was changed (made
commercial) but a new fork was produced from the last copy of the GPLed
code which of course was still available under the GPL (and always will
be).  I always figured this was a natural consequence of copyright law.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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