Hi,
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:53:27PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
On 02/01/2011 01:44 PM, Moritz Strübe 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
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