On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:35 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Hey in the recent case where the debian guys kicked out Joerg Schilling ( the maintainer of cdrtools?? ). It was because he closed source his project, right? But they forked a new utility based on the last release under the GPL. Can someone explain us the exact consequences of his action on the entire community and the legal aspect of the whole thing?
He hasn't revoked his licence on the old code. Hence the fork of his old code will continue under the gpl with other developers and maintainers. But if he does try to revoke the gpl on he previous code he will have tosend everyone a legal notice stating reasons for the revocation. Any one can challenge the revocation if it does not have a sound reason (even if it does). But if you do not challenge it means you accept his reason and will have to stop distribution and probaly useage too.