Gnutella Forums  

Go Back   Gnutella Forums > Discontinued Gnutella Client Forums > SwapNut (Windows) > SwapNut Open Discussion
Register FAQ The Twelve Commandments Members List Calendar Arcade Find the Best VPN Today's Posts


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old January 20th, 2002
Unregistered
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Default

"Ok, here's the deal. We licensed our code base to SwapNut before GPLing, as cultiv8r pointed out. This means that, even though we later GPLed our code, SwapNut's version is under a separate license. They cannot, however, incorporate any of LimeWire's code since then that includes open source contributions. They are free, however, to continue working off of the licensed code base and to include updates that were not based on open source contributions (code written by the LimeWire team, which is most of it).

We are not actually sure what everyone over at SwapNut is up to right now, as we have not heard anything from them in awhile, but that's basically the extent of the relationship." afisk


As long as the code is all written by Limewire. They can do what ever they want with it, even if they release it under the GPL. Because they are the copyright holder.

The problem comes if people, not part of Limwire contributes code. These people are the copyright holder of their perspective code, and Limwire can not do whatever thay want with this code.

I wonder how much of the current Limwire 2.1.1 is not written by Limwire?
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
GPL Violation ratfink Open Discussion topics 22 September 8th, 2003 11:24 AM
GPL Violation ratfink General Gnutella Development Discussion 1 August 16th, 2003 08:05 AM
Access violation Unregistered Support: General 17 November 20th, 2001 06:13 PM
access violation Sedulus User Experience 0 November 15th, 2001 02:20 AM
Access Violation Unregistered Support: General 2 October 21st, 2001 12:35 AM


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 01:08 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
SEO by vBSEO 3.6.0 ©2011, Crawlability, Inc.

Copyright © 2020 Gnutella Forums.
All Rights Reserved.