Hi guys,
I would be happy if someone could help me understand the licensing of NXT.
As far as I understand, it has been released under GPL2 (see
https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/src/a5374fa2700bdd87cb4a2c0e0dce09a0ab87e13d/LICENSE.txt?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)
Afterwards the licence was changed to the Jelurdia PUBLIC LICENSE (see
https://bitbucket.org/Jelurida/nxt/src/7f170093b7f5534f3b94bca085abf0d7d5751830/LICENSE.txt?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)
As far as I know, only the copyright holder can do that.
Did the NXT core developers found the company Jelurdia or did Jelurdia acquire the copyright on the NXT software from them?
Am I overlooking something else?
If Jelurdia doesn't own the copyright couldn't I just exercise the rights defined in the GPL and completely ignore their attempt to cripple NXT for a derived work?
EDIT: The same would also hold for Ardor, since it is derived work from the GPL licenced NXT.