Subject: Reconsidering the GPL licensing of Maxima
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:52:35 -0600
richard,
in reference to bill schelter's license notices,
> Can one give away code and then later impose a restriction on it?
i am almost certain that the answer is yes. to the extent
that he had the right to release the software, he was free
to release it under as many different licenses as he wished.
the maxima 5.6 license is the one that matters to us, not
because it is the most recent, but because version 5.6 is
the basis for the current work. someone else is free to
start another project based on, say, 5.2, and they would
be bound by the terms under which 5.2 was released.
for what it's worth,
robert dodier