[H-GEN] GPL or not??

[Raymond Smith]

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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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.

Russell and AJ have already pointed to the LCA talk. The key thing is no
license is irrevocable - even if it says it is. Hence, it is possible for
an author to revoke a license at anytime. So an author can also revoke
your license and issue you a new one.

There are mitigating factors to this which are discussed at length in the
paper.

Cheers,

Raymond
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