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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 26, 2011 16:59 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by loftsy
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Banshee's under MIT/X11. If they'd wanted to do that, they could have done.


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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 26, 2011 17:24 UTC (Thu) by loftsy (guest, #75160) [Link]

Heh - OK I guess you've got me there. If you license basically says "Do whatever you want with it" then you don't make much downstream control!

Still - it doesn't change the fact that retaining copyright provides you with options. In this case it would have to come down to relicensing.

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