AOL made the original developer at Nullsoft (an AOL employee who as a result has left the company) retract the code (once they learned of its existence) because as an AOL employee he was not allowed to release software without AOL's permission (because in their contracts all software they develop becomes the property of AOL). So as a result of this it is illegal to own a copy of the source code because distribution of the source was not authorised by AOL, thus if you have a copy of the code you are legally obliged to delete it.
Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [JDEV] FW: WASTE and Jabber > > On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Julian Missig wrote: > > > Oh, and uh, WASTE is not even of questionable legal status.. that code > > is essentially illegal to possess, so I'm not sure it's really worth > > investigating all that much. > > Curious ... on what grounds is it illegal? (not a debate, just > stupidity) > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
