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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have a question I'm unable to confirm the answer
to and was hoping someone on this list could kindly lend me their expertise in
answering it. I'm a freeware software coder and publish simple tools for
anyone to download. Recently I've been working on a larger project
and because of its size I would like to license it under the GPL for others
to freely build upon it as they see fit. From what I understand of the GPL
if you use GPL code in a separate project that separate project must be licensed
under GPL too. Now what I've done is sort of the opposite and borrowed
code from freeware tools I've written not licensed under GPL and want to
use the borrowed code in a GPL project. My question is as the
copyright holder of the code do I have to release all my other projects for
which I borrowed/reused code from under the GPL?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ryan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>