On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:25:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:09:09PM +0200, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >>Can you buy a closed proprietary code and than realease it under GPL? > > > > > >Yes. It probably depends on the amount of money you spend, and on what > > >exactly you buy, but it's very possible to do so... > > > > Thank you Wouter. > > That doesn't buy freedom, it buys a work.
It can buy freedom, depending on "what exactly you buy," as Wouter said. Imagine that you buy the right to relicense the work under a license of your choosing. That would probably "[depend] on the amount of money you spend, [...] but it's very possible to do so," as Wouter said. Of course, the purchaser would also need to want to use the GPL for the new license.... - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]