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> What _real_ difference does it make? The only difference is that |
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> Gentoo Technologies, Inc. can't relicense it and make a closed-source |
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> version. However, if it was possible for them, and if they did, everybody |
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> could just ignore them and continue working on the last version released |
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> under the GPL. |
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The point is not that you can't fork the project. You'r right at that |
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you always can, if it's licensed under GPL. The point is preserving |
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the future "free" status of _all_ derivative works as well. If you don't |
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care about that, you can just put all the work in "public domain". |
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