> I could say "everything I write is *my* code, but I will allow it to > be > shipped with OpenBeOS" > > I then go and write a hefty chunk of the kernel, and after a few > months > /years I decide I don't want OpenBeOS to use it anymore. > > I think that OpenBeOS code and software, should be OpenBeOS code and > software, unless its GPL. That's what licenses are for - since all of "our" code uses a very liberate one, we can't take away what's already given. If Dr. Zoidberg would decide to change the license of its code, AFAIK this wouldn't have any effect on the old code. Adios... Axel.