On 10614 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: > [as a personal note, I think I'm really hating that -ctte is turning into > -legal over this... :/] We can move it elsewhere if you want. But going to -legal probably gets more flame into this. :) >> It was released under GPL. He may change that for the future, and if we >> fork he may also make license statements that we arent allowed to merge >> code from him into our fork, but he cant really stop us from forking it, >> if we follow GPL. >> He can try, of course, but I dont think we would lose that battle. > AFAIK, the question "can the GPL permissions on a work be withdrawn?" is an > unsettled one, and the answer may vary by jurisdiction. Yes, unfortunately I trust judges to be uninformed enough to have true randomness in decisions. I personally would think you can't revoke GPL for a old version, only if you release a new one use a different license for that, but well... > So it's clear that he has neither the legal nor moral authority to stop us > from forking mkisofs, but for cdrecord neither is clear. Even if we could > win a legal challenge over cdrecord, I'm not sure we would be in the right > morally. mkisofs and cdda2wav are safe, yes. Oh man, i hope it wont ever go that far. :() -- bye Joerg <aba> bah, it's raining ugly here. We can release today, I won't leave home in any case :)
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