On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:29 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Walter Landry wrote: [...] > > The problem is that we are then gambling with other people's money. > > Coupling that with the wide range of wacky things that copyright > > holders have done in the past makes me consider any decision more > > seriously. Remember, for this code in particular, the copyright > > holder tried to take it back out of circulation. Normally you might > > rely on the good will of the copyright holder to not enforce strange > > clauses in the license, but you can not make that assumption here. > > I think earlier in my email I tried to distance myself from this > particular license issue and be more general about the whole thing. > There may be excellent reasons in this particular case to worry about > license issues, and certainly that the copyright holder stopped > releasing the code under the GPL is a warning flag. [...] Wait, wait! What are we talking about, again? Firebird was released under the terms of the GNU GPL, you say? That's new to me. Or did you mean to write *M*PL? -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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