Cease and Desist from Watchfire

[Grant Edwards]

In article <slrn8p0t80.n9e.ahopkins at ahopkins.dynacare.com>, marduk wrote:

>I will be consulting with free software leaders out there about what
>would be the best action for me to take.  But right now I want to
>clarify that linbot is software distributed under the GPL and so
>is Public software belonging to the People.  I want to emphasize this
>because, although I have been the main contributer to the work, I
>do not see myself having ownership of the software.  I believe this
>is implied by the GPL itself, but I am no lawyer and so I would
>like to say so explicitely.

Placing something under GPL does not mean that you are no longer the
copyright owner.  It still belongs to you -- the GPL allows others to use it
in certain ways.

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