On 12/23/05, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(In particular, the GPL itself does not explicitly claim to be
irrevocable. The free software community generally believes it to be
_implicitly_ irrevocable, but that won't necessarily impress a court
faced with a plaintiff's argument:
Scripsit Decklin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florent Bayle writes:
we can't be sure that the licence would remain the same over the time, and
thus we couldn't guarantee that it will always remains free.
This is a maintence problem, not a legal one. If upstream decides to
take it proprietary
Hello,
At http://www.vanheusden.com/unsort/ you can find a piece of software called
unsort, which contains a file named licence.txt with the following
contents :
The license of this program can be obtained from:
http://www.vanheusden.com/license.txt
It is actually the GNU Public License.
How
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:00:44PM +0100, Florent Bayle wrote:
Hello,
At http://www.vanheusden.com/unsort/ you can find a piece of software called
unsort, which contains a file named licence.txt with the following
contents :
The license of this program can be obtained from:
Florent Bayle writes:
does that mean that the licence of this piece of software can change
at any time (even for the same release) ? Is it possible to include it
in Debian ?
The copyright holder can always license the code to anyone, under
whatever terms they wish, at any time.
Once *you*
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