On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:12:16PM -0800, Duane Maxwell wrote: [...]
I'm curious if you have any nontrivial examples of previously closed software whose ownership was originally held by a substantial corporation that was released open source under an unmodified GPL or BSD license.
StarOffice/OpenOffice neatly falls into that category, as does Mozilla. GEM was released under the GPL when Caldera bought Digital Research. The Watcom C compiler is due to be released as open-source software as well, although the current maintainers are still trying to remove third-party-licensed code.
--Chris