Converting/Splitting Code - Open to Closed

[Matthew C. Weigel]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Samuel Reynolds wrote:

> The copyright owner can license the code under any terms he likes,
> or none at all. 
> He can license the code under different terms to different people.
> He can license the code under different terms to the same people at
> different times.

Or, as in the case with GPL, some of the code is under someone else's
copyright, to which the original author as a license via the GPL.

Ssh is a good example of GPL'd code becoming less free.  OpenSSH is a good
example of what happens with the GPL'd version :)
-- 
 Matthew Weigel
 Research Systems Programmer
 weigel+ at pitt.edu