Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License

Arandir arandir at meer.net
Thu Nov 18 03:56:02 UTC 1999


On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Starner wrote:

> > This is equivalent to forking the project at the start, unless you add
> > an addendum to the GPL that stipulates that GPL contributors permit you
> > to take their changes and re-release them under the APSL clone. Of
> > course, then it's not GPL anymore.
> 
> It's possible that it will get forked. Of course, that's possible with
> any license that's not a copyleft.

Copyleft can get forked just as easily. Compare GNU emacs versus XEmacs.

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