Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]
This topic has been beat to death and is the cause for most of the
devs bailing throughout the life of the project (legal concerns).
There are a couple old articles on /. that should cover all the
arguments (in the comments)...but I'm sure you'll find them all over.
here's one:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1259206&mode=nested&tid=120&tid=126&tid=187&tid=95
On 5/18/05, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Sorry for just intejecting into the discussion like this, but....)
>
> From what I understand of the history of WASTE. At one time, NullSoft did
> infact release WASTE under the GPL. However, AOL (NullSoft's parent
> company) didn't like this, and that message on NullSoft's website is because
> of that. (And thus, it was origianlly authorized by NullSoft, but not
> authorized by AOL.)
>
> Now, from what I understand, once you release something under the GPL, you
> cannot un-release it. And if that is the case, then this software is "OK".
>
>
> See ya
>
>
> See ya
>
>
> On 5/18/05, Mirco Bauer <meebey@php.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:20 +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I'm on the way of making a debian package for Waste, and I would have
> the
> > > folowing two questions about your software:
> > >
> > > Does the licence really reflect GPL?
> > > This arise because of this:
> > >
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/waste/waste/license.cpp?rev=1.1&view=auto
> > > "WASTE - license.cpp
> > > Copyright (C) 2003 Nullsoft, Inc.
> > > Copyright (C) 2004 WASTE Development Team"
> > > -> What does Nullsoft have to do with Waste?
> > >
> > > And also this:
> > > "//ADDED Md5Chap - THIS PART IS GPL LICENSE!!! TOUCH AND DIE!"
> > > Followed by a full binary array.
> > > ...
> > >
> >
> > I googled for WASTE I found this:
> > http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/
> > According to Nullsoft this is UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE and is not allowed
> > to be distributed!
> > Please delete all source and package copies you may have and do not let
> > it enter debian!
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mirco 'meebey' Bauer
> >
> > PGP-Key:
> >
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> >
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>
> --
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
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