On 24/03/03 20:07 +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Another related issue ... when developers contribute code to foobar, do they hand over their rights to the copyright holder for foobar?
No. Your code is still copyright to you.
The original copyright holders have the right to change the license terms on their work at any time. I assume this cannot have a retrospective effect on the copies that have already been licensed
Correct. Retrospective copyright change is not allowed.
under the GPL. But what happens to all the contributions from other developers? If foobar suddenly becomes propietary, does that mean all the code in foobar can now be used for commercial purposes although it
Ummm, GPLed code can always be used for commercial purposes :). The original distributors will have to remove the code that is not copyright by them.
Devdas Bhagat