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In Reply to this Note From: <Per Bothner>
>
>In article <1990Dec16.104300.12930@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>In reply to this Peter said the following:
[text deleted]
>>Frankly, for me that took a few days to fully sink in.  Peter has
>>written Ghostscript and will allow us to use it and debug it for him.
>>He reserves the right to turn it into a commercial product once we've
>>helped him get it to that point.
>
>I think you're misreading it.

If Peter decides to take GS private, he has the right to do so.
However, any version that he previously released under the GNU GPL is
still free.  Any contributions made by other authors belong to them.
If they were released under the GPL, they are free.  If he uses them
in his commercial version, he must either get permission from those
authors or conform to the GPL.

None of this depends on what Peter intends.  That is the law as I
understand it.  -David-

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