On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:20 +0530, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/1/6 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com:
There is also a large class of people who are taken in by this propaganda and think that there is only one
open
source license foolishly license their software under the GPL and
only
realise their mistake too late.
If you are the copyright holder of the code, there is nothing stopping you from changing the license. I don't see why the above scenario is a "mistake" (unless you are talking of "oh shit! I shouldn't have allowed the world to see my source code").
no, rather "oh shit! now that I have accepted these contributions, I cannot use them in my internal company code without a lot of headache". Or "Oh shit! this license does not suit my business model".