Re: [CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS

On 07/22/2011 01:11 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

Marian Marinov wrote:

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I spoke with my colleges about Ksplice and one very interesting question popped up:

What will happen with our fork efforts if Oracle suddenly patent the Ksplice

software ?

I know that in Europe we don't have the problem with software pattents and the GPL will protect us from any issues like that.

However what is the situation in the US and other countries that have software pattents ?

Marian

Any code released as GPL can be forked as long as fork is also GPL. Can Oracle even change the license for code published as GPL?

later code can be published using any license. the license for the earlier code cannot be changed

I am really interested to hear "official" responce from someone that knows this by heart.