Re: Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION
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Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@ieee.org> writes:
> 5. Can TransGaming change the license?
> Legally I guess there within their rights to do so.
> Morally (I never thought I would use this word) no. I have worked
> on some projects where I added functionality to code and I cannot
> imagine me restricting the distribution of the code from which I
> did not write the bulk of it.
They can change the license under which future versions are released.
If they gave you a copy under the Aladdin license, you have a copy
under the Aladdin license, and they can't change that. It would be
equivalent to the Wine project changing TransGaming's license to use
the Wine source to the GPL.
The above assumes that the Aladdin license doesn't include a
revocation clause, which I believe to be correct. What this means is
that if you package winex-light, they can't keep it from (eventually)
reaching stable. They can prevent you from using their future
packages, but only by changing their license to be even-more-obviously
non-free.
- -Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@akamai.com
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