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. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant