[lug] GPL question

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:21:27PM -0700, David Anselmi wrote:
> Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> [...]
> > So my gut says its all GPL code I've written that uses open source as
> >the content engine and I *can't* un-GPL it (what ever that means) and my
> >code that hasn't been published needs to be GPL. 
> 
> Seems to me that whoever owns the copyright to the code gets to decide. 

What happens to _their_ copy of the code. The copyright owner can decide to
stop releasing new versions. But there seems to be no doubt about the code
that allready is out there: the GPL can't be revoked. Oh, another thing the 
company has to consider: iff (as the OP said) the code is out on sourceforge
than there's a good chance that code flew back from outside In that cases the
code is "contaminated" by external GPLed code -- which makes it impossible 
to change the licence.

>  If that isn't spelled out in the contract, get a lawyer.  If the owner 
> wants to do something that conflicts with a license that has already 
> been made available, get a lawyer.

Yes, the _first_ thing i clear with my employers is: "who owns the copyrights"
(it seems that this question is much easier to answer over here: unless specified
in the contracts the copyright [which is called "Urheberrecht" --> _creators right_]
remains with the person who _wrote_ the stuff.

 
> Sorry I can't be more help, IANAL.

Same with me
   RalfD
> Dave
> 
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