On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:56 +0000, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > >Don't run if you can't walk.... it's better to just use public domain, I > >guess. > > John Hasler made a similar point about using the MIT licence. That > might not suit the copyright holder's whim; they might actually like the > "viral" nature of the GPL, even for binary-only abandonware. They might > *like* the fact that licensees can't legally prevent further > redistribution of an improved version they derived. Translations should > be easy enough to do, for example.
Maybe, but since there's no source code, there's little value in using the GPL, and if it was used, a distributor could find himself in infringement since he could not comply with the source related parts. Rui
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