[CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

Marian Marinov wrote:
> 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? I am really 
interested to hear "official" responce from someone that knows this by 
heart.

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