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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:50:13 +0100
From: Erik Auerswald <
auerswald@fg-networking.de>
To:
x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] [Pkg-x2go-devel] Getting things started with
x2goclient
Message-ID: <
20110202085013.GB24710@fgnfs.fg-networking.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:53:27PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 01:44 PM, Moritz Str?be wrote:
> > Am 01.02.2011 18:28, Gerry Reno schrieb:
> >
> >> Unless NoMachine completely rewrote the NX libs from scratch they cannot
> >> change the license nor can they fail to provide any updates made to that
> >> code base. Once the GPL license is on a code base ALL derivatives that
> >> are distributed in any manner are covered under the GPL no matter who
> >> makes them.
Any code released under the GPL remains this way. This does not affect new
releases done by the copyright holder.
> > No, this only applies if you license the code. Therefore they can
> > re-license the code under whatever license they wish, as long as they
> > don't violate the rights (licenses) of others.
>
> Without knowing the entire history of the NX codebase, I would say that
> if they were accepting contributions from any contributors that made
> their contributions under the GPL then they, NoMachine, cannot just
> summarily change the license of the codebase.
They have the copyright on all code in NX, see their contribution
guidelines:
http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR12B00113
To spell it out: Nomachine can relicense the NX code any which way they
want.
BTW this was the first google result for the query "contribute nomachine
nx", a few seconds research would have saved many emails...
Erik