[X2go-dev] [Pkg-x2go-devel] Getting things started with x2goclient

[Gerry Reno]

On 02/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 01:45 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:28 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>>     
>>> On 02/01/2011 08:22 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>>> <snip>However, since 3.4 is reported to be the last
>>>     
>>>       
>>>>> GPL'ed version of these libraries, from now on, the community needs to
>>>>> do this upstream work independently from the actual upstream:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nomachine.com/news-read.php?idnews=331
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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>>>       
>> <snip>
>> I'm not sure if that's true if they also own all the copyrights or at
>> least unlimited rights to all submitted code.  Then they can simply
>> issue the entire code body under a different license.  At least that's
>> the way I think it works and why some organizations are quite adamant
>> about having full rights to all submissions even if they do not own the
>> copyright - John
>>
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>>     
> And that is exactly what some "commercial" open source companies are
> using to actually benefit (exploit) open source and then after the
> project is so far along then they adopt a closed license and screw the
> open source community.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
>   

Back in the day, this was known as "bait and switch".

And it's still quite alive today, even in the new digital age.


Regards,
Gerry