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Single-company free software
Single-company free software
Posted Oct 13, 2005 6:45 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: Single-company free software by hgj
Parent article: Single-company free software
If version 2 of a product is GPL then version 3 of that product is a derived product of it, so version 3 must also be released as GPL.
Nothing is wrong with the statement as such, but you're forgetting one thing: If you're the sole copyright-ownder of a work, you're free to do anything you like with the software, including changing it and giving the next version out under a different license.
If you write GPLgame v1 alone you're free to update that and a year later release say MPLgame v2 or even ProprietaryGame v2 based on it. This only changes the minute you accept outside patches and don't have the people providing those assign copyright to you.
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