Distributions warning

Samuel Liddicott sam at liddicott.com
Tue Jul 13 08:43:45 UTC 2004


Just a warning about the GPL and distributions:

You may think it cool that you are being paid to work developing GPL 
code as you get to keep access to your changes, but there is nothing 
cool about this if the new work is not distributed publicly.

You may not have the right to distribute the work you have made as 
copyright may belong to your employer; but unless your employer either 
publicly distributes the work under GPL or to someone else who will make 
it public under the GPL the changes you make will not necessarily be 
available to you or anyone else.

My tip is to arrange to commit code changes back to a public repository 
as often as possible.

Sam




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