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[Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy
- Subject: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy
- From: rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert Krawitz)
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:39:00 -0400
- In-reply-to: <57092B5D.1080909@gmail.com> (richard.pieri@gmail.com)
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On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:18:37 -0400, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 4/9/2016 10:24 AM, IngeGNUe wrote: > I'm still not sure that you can actually take a fully copyleft work and > make it fully proprietary, though. Copyleft entails the copyright holder > forfeiting some rights to control the work and it is not clear to me if > those rights, once forfeited, can be reclaimed. If you have issued your own work under a copyleft license, and not accepted any changes, you can reissue it under any license you please. You just can't stop anyone using/modifying/distributing existing copies of the work. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
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