----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Piefel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: Unfulfillable licence terms
> > No answer. None at all, not even bouncing mail. As far as I'm concerned the > author does not exist anymore. What to do with such a program? Leave it in > non-free forever or rewrite it? Or should I just erase that remark, since I > can be pretty sure he doesn't care? > Well, was the author allowed to license it under different terms, when it is based on a program under BSD-style license? If he was not allowed to, the license he gives is void, and the program is not licensed at all, so nobody is allowed to use it. Jens
