Hi,
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:54:54PM -0500, brian mullan wrote:
I think all of the comments are good points regarding NoMachine's going closed source but I believe that precedence is that if you have historically provided the code under GPL you have already given those that use that software the perpetual right to continue using... just don't expect the originator (re NoMachine in this case) to fix bugs, improve on it etc.
Right, if somebody grabbed a copy of that code (e.g. archive.org or your favourite distri). Then you are free to fork and maintain your own codebase. Of course this is a lot more work than just using an existing and active project.
You cannot later revoke the GPL from published code, but the original publisher has no obligation to continue publishing it (except source code for binary releases for a reasonable time).
The problem with NoMachine going closed source is that the people updating, improving and fixing (the free) NX will stop doing so (or have already done that). NX is the enabler for X2Go, but I don't see X2Go having the manpower to tackle the additional task of developing resp. maintaining NX themselves.
Erik
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