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