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Sveasoft and the GPL

Sveasoft and the GPL

Posted Apr 7, 2006 20:49 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Sveasoft and the GPL by job
Parent article: Sveasoft and the GPL

There is nothing wrong with having a GPL version lag behind a restricted version ... What's wrong with Sveasoft is that they don't own the copyright to the code, it surprised me a great deal that the FSF didn't have a problem with that.

If FSF didn't have a problem with that, it's just because FSF didn't know. The article says only that FSF doesn't have a problem with the support contract issue (i.e. with Sveasoft offering updates selectively to people who haven't exercised their GPL right to redistribute the code).


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