On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:23:19PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:59:09 +0000, > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Eh? The code is GPL. The person in question was perfectly aware of > > this and licensed his code the same way. *No* liberties are being > > taken! > > .._we_ know that. His _heirs_, does not neccessarily know, understand, > or appreciate, this fact. Which again _may_ cause such bad feelings. > > ..myself, I prefer to err on the side of caution, such bad feelings > _can_ be prevented, both by removal of dead mens code, and > by asking the heirs. Removal and rewriting, is of course the > safest approach, but forces "re-inventing the wheel", I like to see > re-innovation happen on technological merits alone, not just > because someone dies.
Now I wish I'd never mentioned this. The case is no different from code contributed in any other way. Go and dig up copies from /usr/share/doc/man-db/copyright from back when Fabrizio was maintaining it if you care; I don't have an interest in discussing this further when you haven't read the text he himself wrote which makes the legal situation perfectly clear. EOThread for me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]