As I already told emitrax on irc, this is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way.
Porting code is like translating a book. If I translate an English book into Dutch, I'm just the translator - not the author.
Thom On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:50 PM, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
On 7/11/07, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:when *porting* GPL code, can I distribute the new code under a differentlicense? MIT for example?I'm far from a GPL expert, but my gut feeling on this is no, you cannot. Really in a sense this is the whole point of the GPL: making sure when people make changes other people (and the original developers) can still benefit. If you were able to change the license to MIT just because you ported the code (which in general isn't that hard), then someone else (like a commercial company) could come along and make more changes to your code and then choose to not release those changes. These might be useful changes which could be integrated back into the original version, but they would be hidden in the code of the company. The GPL is designed to avoid this. FYI I'm not really passionate about MIT vs GPL and all that jazz, I'm just trying to be helpful. Ryan
