[Gllug] Civilization for Linux

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Sat Feb 8 02:13:20 UTC 2003


Mike Brodbelt writes:

>Personally, I agree - I'd be more than happy to release my code
>as free software, but I'd be decidedly less than pleased if a
>commercial interest then forked it, closed it, and sold it for
>a profit.

This happened to a friend of mine, who wrote the original xzx
spectrum emulator. Someone else took over maintainership, and
shortly afterwards, they forked a commercial version. He was
lamenting the fact that he hadn't just GPLed it in the first
place...

Tet

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