Re: bsd license question

[Adam <suck@my-balls.com>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:47:26 +0800, Jeffrey Lim <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:33:58 -0500, Adam <suck@my-balls.com> wrote:
>>
>> The same place it would be if someone bought out a GPL project.
>> There is no difference, if you write some awesome GPL software, I can  
>> pay
>> you to develop it for me as a closed source project.
>
> i'm not so sure that is correct, actually - unless u're talking about
> a Re-implementation of the project. Surely the GPL forces derivations
> to be GPL-based as well? Or does this restriction not apply for the
> copyright owners (i think this should be true, but somebody check me
> on this)?

Copyright owners can do whatever they want, including taking the
development closed-source, or selling the rights to someone else who
can then continue it closed source.  The most recent version of the
open source project would still be there for anyone who wants to pick
it up though, regardless of wether it was BSD or GPL.

Adam