Re: [Themis-dev] Another dev? Another code base we can use?

[Cian D. <my...@gm...>]

On 13/09/2007, Raymond C. Rodgers <z3r...@bb...> wrote:
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>
> It's my understanding of GPL (and I may be completely wrong) but once
> something has been GPLed it can't be unGPLed. It can have a second
> "compatible" license added, or if it was originally something else, GPL
> can be added to it, but it can't go from GPL to BSD/MIT, as far as I
> know. Personally, I'm not willing to make Themis GPL for his project's
> sake. Open source may be open source, but GPL and MIT are a world apart
> in my opinion, and I also have no intention of throwing out my work so
> that I can base the project around UZI. That would hurt my ego too much,
> and more importantly, it would feed his entirely too much.



 Assuming you fully own the source you can relicenced it to whatever you
want and continue from then on as that licence, but any previous releases
under the GPL must remain as GPL. This is how GPL projects such as the
Sourceforge engine become commercial products, and so on.


Cian
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