Re: the new IglooFTP license
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 28-Jul-99, 07:57 (CDT), Samuel Hocevar <sam@via.ecp.fr> wrote:
> > Meanwhile, he implemented Igor's patch for VMS to one of those
> > two 0.6.1 versions.
>
> This is the most alarming section. Did the patch go into the new
> proprietary version?
Yes; it is in the changelog.
> If so, does Igor know?
I have reasons to think that yes, he knows. But neither him
nor the original IglooFTP author answered me yet.
> Does he approve?
No idea, sorry.
> If I was
> Igor, I would *insist* on seeing the current source code, and making
> sure that the patch did not appear (assuming, of course, that I had
> licensed my patch appropriately).
Alas, this seems to be a problem: the patch available for
download has no copyright notice on it, no license.
I'm quite curious about this: if a piece of code is released
under no license, doesn't the author keep all the rights on the
code ? Or is it implicitly thrown into 'public domain' ?
Regards,
Sam.
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