[CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.roFri Jul 22 10:16:45 UTC 2011
- Previous message: [CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS
- Next message: [CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
On 07/22/2011 01:11 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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? 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. >
- Previous message: [CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS
- Next message: [CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
More information about the CentOS-devel mailing list