On Fri, 14 May 1999, Simon Hill wrote:
> It wouldn't seem possible to release something under another license after it
> had been GPLed. The GPL is a pretty viral license, once something has been
> GPLed, it is required that anything derived from it be GPLed. Code could be
> forked, but each branch would have to be released under the GPL.
This is not true. The original copyright holder is free to release the
code under a different license. The GPLed version will stay around
however.
The tricky part is that if you release something under the GPL and
other people contribute code to it, they own the copyright on their
contributed code, so you would need their permission before
relicensing it.
Unweildy, but certainly possible.
RHP
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