If you are the sole copyright holder, you have the right to do what you
want with the software. If you choose to issue that software with
statements that the GPL applies to it, and /then/ you don't honor the
GPL terms, it's not an issue of copyright infringement. It may be some
sort of fraud, or violation of the contract which you offered to others
(not that FSF says it /is/ a contract).
If it's not egregiously deceptive it would probably not be a high
priority for anyone to enforce against it.
Thanks
Bruce
On 03/10/2014 02:24 PM, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
What if I am the sole copyright holder and I understand and feel the
importance of the GPL (I stress this as I said before, there is no
intention whatsoever to circumvent the GPL) and release a product
(hard + software) of which I'm the sole copyright holder with a
promise of releasing the code after 6 months. Technically I haven't
released any code yet, so there's no license to adhere to yet, but
that's less important I guess.
