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Aha!

Posted Nov 25, 2003 0:28 UTC (Tue) by jre (subscriber, #2807)
Parent article: Examining an attack on the GPL

After circling this issue a few times, I did find the definitive comment, thanks to Groklaw's quote database:

"The GPL requires the intentional act of the legal copyright holder to affirmatively and knowingly donate the source code to the GPL . . . You can't inadvertently GPL your code."

Guess who actually seems to have understood one thing about the GPL?


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