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Re: Starting all over from 16.1 ?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Starting all over from 16.1 ?
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:24:11 -0800
- Distribution: cygnus
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <3303EA8D.17C9.cygnus.gnu-win32@kamus.it>
- Xref: cygnus.com cygnus.gnu-win32:4265
assini@kamus.it (Pasqualino Assini) writes:
> If 16.1 or something similar is still LGPLed couldn't we
>
> (by we I mean those who don't find it amusing to see
> cygnus.dll becoming a commercial product)
>
> just start a new developement thread from it and keep it LGPLed ?
>
> Or cygnus can retrospectively change the status of a version
> from LGPL to GPL ?
Much of the older code has no explicit terms on it at all, which means
that it is by default "all rights reserved". I don't think there's
any problem with hacking away on it as a personal project, but any
honest and knowledgeable lawyer would tell you to stay miles away from
it for a commercial product. After all, perhaps Cygnus might get
bought by AT&T or something, and they would decide to exercise their
rights and go after commercial products using old cygwin32 stuff.
(Knowledgeable lawyers should be able to quote you plenty of similar
cases - for instance, the Symbolics code grab that was one of the
impetuses for RMS starting GNU in the first place, or the contention
over Berkeley sources.)
Stan
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