Re: [Fsfe-uk] GPL'ing old versions of code

[Oliver Elphick]

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 09:39, Dave Crane wrote:
> -- Richard Ibbotson wrote: ---
> The rest of the message is ignored:
> > 
> > You could produce version 1 and then when you produce version 2 you 
> > could GPL version 1 and give it away ?
> > 
> --- to which Bob Ham replied: ---
> > Release a version *without* source?  Heresy!
> 
> Out of idle curiosity, I wondered if this would be allowed under the GPL. 
> Assuming that the v2 code reuses a lot of the internal code from v1, then 
> once v1 is GPL'd, and v2 statically links to it, doesn't the GPL cover v2 as 
> well?
>  

If it's your code, you can do what you like.  GPL restrictions affect
other people, not the author.

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