[H-GEN] GPL or not??

[Russell Stuart]

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Re: "This is exactly what happened to Mosix".  No.  Re-read the
paragraph you are commenting on - I did not say what you think I said. 
Mosix was being lenient. They may well be able to retract the GPL
license they had granted earlier.  As AJ said, this has not been tested
in the courts for free software, but it *has* been tested for shareware
in Australia and the author's right to change the license in that case
was upheld.  Better still read the link AJ posted earlier - it is the
original source, written by an Australian lawyer.  Here it is again for
your convenience.

  http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/licencearticle.html

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:25, Robert Brockway 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.
<snip>

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