[Gloucs] Getting rid of Windoze

[Mick Brooks]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:26:58PM -0000, Steve Greig wrote:

Hi Steve,

> Is this to do with GNU General Public License? Does it require 
> that if you modify or extend something covered by such a license for your 
> own use you are required to make the software you have created available to 
> everybody or are Disney et al just making this available to us voluntarily? 

I think the correct answer is no. You are allowed to make modifications
to GPL'd software, but you are only required to make those modifications
available if you choose to distribute them. Disney could have kept
their changes internal, and so it could be said they've done a nice
thing. However, I can't see they have anything to gain by keeping such
changes secret, so maybe they've only managed to avoid being actively
nasty.

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks at physics.ox.ac.uk