Re: Unfulfillable licence terms
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Piefel" <piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:44 PM
Subject: Unfulfillable licence terms
>
> No answer. None at all, not even bouncing mail. As far as I'm concerned
the
> author does not exist anymore. What to do with such a program? Leave it in
> non-free forever or rewrite it? Or should I just erase that remark, since
I
> can be pretty sure he doesn't care?
>
Well, was the author allowed to license it under different terms, when it is
based on a program under
BSD-style license? If he was not allowed to, the license he gives is void,
and the program is not licensed at all,
so nobody is allowed to use it.
Jens
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