POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : What I'm learning about open source : Re: What I'm learning about open source Server Time
5 Sep 2024 15:25:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What I'm learning about open source  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 27 Aug 2009 23:01:57
Message: <4a9748a5$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:11:39 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Jim Henderson schrieb:
>>>> Well, if the company you've done the work for distributes it, they
>>>> also are required to distribute the code.... :-)
>>> Yeah. And still - */I/ DO NOT....!* :-)
> 
>> I don't think, actually, that you're permitted to restrict them from
>> distributing the changes, because the base code is GPL.  But you'd have
>> to ask an expert in the GPL about that.
> 
> What I meant was, again, "*/I/ DO NOT GPL IT!*" - as in, "no matter what
> the company does with the code (and they'd probably have all the rights
> to do it) - */I/ WILL NOT BE THE ONE TO OFFICIALLY PUT IT UNDER THE
> GPL!*" :-)
> 
> It's a matter of pride :-)

But technically your code ends up being GPL'ed. :-)

(Yes, I'm engaging in a little "let's see how much I can wind clipka up" 
here. ;-) )

Jim


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