[General] Relicensing of Chandler source code

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed May 3 07:58:19 PDT 2006


At 06:06 AM 5/3/2006 -0700, Graham Bird wrote:
>How does one 'move away' from the GPL license?

By the decision of the copyright holders.


>   I'd really like to understand how that is possible.  As I see it, once 
> code is GPLd it is impossible to move it out from the restrictions it carries.

All versions previously licensed under the GPL of course remain available 
for people to use under those terms...  OR the new terms chosen by the 
copyright holders.  Any new versions are of course available only under the 
new terms.



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