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Re: Webkit Snit Circus

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On 10/18/15, 4:46 PM, in article
56242f5a$0$4539$c3e8da3$b280bf18@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei"
<jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-10-18 18:37, Nobody wrote:
> 
>> There's no one answer that covers all licenses.  Under GPL the source
>> must be available to all, and the creators have no "management" rights.
> 
>> It depends on what you're calling a "main distribution."  Anybody can
>> get and modify the code, but they're not entitled to add to your project
>> (distribution) unless you want them to.
> 
> The above seem to be contradictory.
> 
> Say Pear (not Apple) open sources  a chocolate API. In your first
> paragraph, it means Pear has no right to manage the source code.
> 
> Yet, in your second paragraph, Pear can still manage its own source code
> and decide who contributes to its source code. Sounds like managemenmt
> rights here.
> 
> Does this mean that anyone is allowed to have their own source code
> which they steer in their own direction, and nobody contrbutes to the
> original source anymore since the original company is not allowed to
> manage it ?

Again, it depends on which license, but in general just because you open
source code does not mean you cannot modify it yourself.

Heck, you do not even need to have your modified versions be open source, as
long as the original code is not licensed in that way.

In other words, you create a project: MyCoolProject

You then make it open source under the GPL.

Someone else publishes a product based on that code: CoolerProject. They
have to follow the license... with the GPL they have to make it open source.
With some licenses they allow for greater freedom for others... under the
BSD license they would NOT have to make their modifications open source.

Anyway, you then make MyCoolProject II... based on the same codebase as your
first project. YOU do not have to make that open source even if you licensed
the first version under the GPL.



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        Re: Webkit Snit Circus JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-18 19:46 -0400
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