OT - Closing Off An Open-Source Product

Greg Ewing see at my.signature
Thu Apr 19 01:32:00 EDT 2001


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> what if "hackers" working for a big GPL guy takes your non-GPL'd open
> source code, makes a usually trivial change, and instead of contributing
> the change back to the original author, they redistribute the result as
> their own code, under GPL?

It doesn't affect the status of the original source,
and if it's really such a trivial change, it shouldn't
take much for you come up with something equivalent.

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