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::::Wow, I didn't know you could do that. I figured it was "once open source, always open source", but this changes a lot of things. Thanks. --[[User:Flark|Flark]] 17:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
::::Wow, I didn't know you could do that. I figured it was "once open source, always open source", but this changes a lot of things. Thanks. --[[User:Flark|Flark]] 17:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
:::::Besides, the only person who can actually sue someone for violating the GPL on a piece of software is the actual author of the code. So, if you did suspect foul play, all you could really do is try to find all of the original authors and convince them to file a lawsuit. --[[User:Bushing|Bushing]] 12:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
:::::Besides, the only person who can actually sue someone for violating the GPL on a piece of software is the actual author of the code. So, if you did suspect foul play, all you could really do is try to find all of the original authors and convince them to file a lawsuit. --[[User:Bushing|Bushing]] 12:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::::After doing some searching on the subject, I have found that this is indeed the case. To summarize, if you are the original author, you have the right to change the license at any time. I am still not sure how this would effect other projects that are using your code which they obtained while it was under an open source copyleft, or people who might chose to work from older copies of your code and release branch-off projects... or even if it gives you the right to stop distributing older packages of source code or to demand that people distributing them cease doing so. So far, it does appear that anything you previously released under an open license such as the gpl can still be used and modified and even used for profit by anyone just as long as they also make the code available. If this is truly the case, then it is a good bet that wackynono or someone like him is going to come along in the near future and... yeah. lol --[[User:Flark|Flark]] 18:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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Exactly, pirates would just want the features from 1.8 incorporating into the wii backup loader, it's their decision to keep it closed source, (for now) at the moment brkirch said.
Exactly, pirates would just want the features from 1.8 incorporating into the wii backup loader, it's their decision to keep it closed source, (for now) at the moment brkirch said.
Based on GeckoOS 2.0 which was mostly rewritten and therefore not GPL.
Based on GeckoOS 2.0 which was mostly rewritten and therefore not GPL.