Bug#308364: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]
- To: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mirco Bauer <meebey@php.net>, Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, waste-public@lists.sourceforge.net, 308364@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#308364: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]
- From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:12:26 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20050518211226.GA26959@uio.no>
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:40:06AM -0700, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> 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".
You're assuming the people who released it had the right to do that in the
first place. I can _not_ take the leaked Windows 2000 source code, release it
under the GPL and then claim it is okay to distribute.
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