Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

[William Hooper]

Carlos Villegas  said:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:33:46PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> you're allowed to distribute the GPL'ed software. -- Or imagine you'd
>> purchase a personalized copy of the software in binary form. The GPL
>> does
>> not cover whether you're allowed to redistribute that personalized
>> binary
>> version. -- Another example where you don't lose the rights in the
>> source
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but that example (personalized binary) clearly would
> violate the GPL, if the original code is GPL, then any derivative work is
> GPL (personlized source that produced the binary)...

It depends.  Is it an original work that the company you are buying it
from decided to sell licenses to?  IE: MySQL.  If you want a non-GPL
licensed copy you can buy it from them.  Just because you place something
you wrote under the GPL doesn't mean you can license it under other
licenses also.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReleaseUnderGPLAndNF
-- 
William Hooper