[CentOS-devel] ksplice and CentOS

Manuel Wolfshant

wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Fri Jul 22 10:16:45 UTC 2011


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.
>




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