[gobolinux-devel] Licensing

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On 4/16/08, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Isaac Dupree wrote:
>  > advantage of "copyleft" license like GPL is that contributors who
>  > contribute their changes *must* be releasing them under GPL so we don't
>  > need to worry/ask about whether they agreed to the license (I think?)
>  >
>
> Yes, I think contributing a patch kind of implies that they're releasing
>  it under GPL if the main work is GPL, or ISC if the main work is ISC.  I
>  don't think copyleft has any bearing on this.  However, it seems to me
>  that the problem being discussed is more to do with *changing* the
>  licence.  Because the author of any original work automatically owns the
>  copyright (unless he explicitly assigns it to someone else), they need
>  to give concent if the licence is to be changed.
>
>
>  Paul Gideon Dann

in my opinion GPL type licenses are in fact not free, as u are not
free to sell software that uses GPL licenced software. LGPL is more
free as only the LGPL licensed software needs to be made freely
available.