Copyleft and Closed Dual License Ethics

Courtesy Linux Today  Tue, 10/14/2008 - 12:35

daniel.haxx.se: "It's perfectly legal for them to do this, as the company is the copyright holder of all the files, they can just easily re-release everything under whatever license they want at their own discretion.

The condition is of course that they are in fact copyright holders of everything..."


 

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