On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:29:48 -0700, Darryl Ramm wrote:

What? Copyright very much applies to just about all open source
software. Unless an developer explicitly give up his copyright rights.

... but under GPL cannot stop people modifying and further distributing
that fork.

and to publish source code to any
modifications to the GPL licensed code. Modifications to the GPL code
must be published for any software made available publicly.

Not quite. The source must be made available to anybody who is using the
code but doesn't have to be broadcast or exposed on a public server. At
least, my reading of the GPL says you may only supply source on demand
with violating the GPL.


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