>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 31 01:59:50 2003
>Having open source is important for support. I may never have to touch a
>line of code, but if you were hit by a meteor cdrtools would continue on
>as an open source project, and prodvd would become a dead software.
>Projects which reflect the vision and effort of a single person don't
>make the author imortal, they die as soon as the author stops working on
>them for whatever reason.
Well, this may be handled in a way that there is a testament that makes
sure that the software will become e.g. GPLd or BSD-2 in such a case.
Larry McVoy did the same with his bitkeeper SCCS.
J�rg
--
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) J�rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling
URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
