The question, then, is whether the GPL applies only to the
version(s) that have been distributed w/ debian to date,
or to -all- versions up until the new license terms were
written.
I'd have to say that the GPL license applies only to those
versions that it was distributed with, so the last version
of PilRC distributed by debian would be covered, but
versions distributed directly by Wes or Aaron would not
be -- they would be covered under the terms that had been
in the readme.txt file that Goerzen referenced.
Just my $.02 ...
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-Richard M. Hartman
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Michael Nordstr�m wrote in message <13972@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
>
>> the reason why i wrote this license agreement was because of
>> that "other tool developer" - and the fact that there was no
>> existing license agreement stated. the GNU GPL license agreement
>> is not what Wes or myself want PilRC under - nor do we endorse
>> any "development" environment. the software is FREE - thats it.
>
>We could argue about whether your license really makes PilRC
>free or not, but the fact is that Wes *did* give permission to
>distribute PilRC under GPL two years ago. Since neither he or
>you have indicated any change in the license until now it could
>indicate that all versions up to version 2.5b5 has been released
>under GPL. Wes and you are entitled to change the license, but
>any version that was released under GPL will stay under GPL,
>i.e. you can't stop anyone from continue developing the last free
>(as in speech) version.
>
>If that version is 2.5b5 or an older version (I believe the
>last version before you took over was 2.4) shouldn't be too
>difficult to figure out.
>
>I hope you will come to your senses and agree to continue
>developing PilRC under GPL, but if not, it would always be
>possible for someone else to add a new project for PilRC
>at SourceForge...
>
>> "free" software is a very vague term. PilRC is not open source
>> (by pure definition) and is not covered under GNU GPL. it never
>> has been - and never will be.
>
>http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright?package=pilrc
>
>/Mike
>
>
>
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