Wired Article on the GPL

Chip Salzenberg chip at valinux.com
Thu Mar 30 19:06:55 UTC 2000


According to John Cowan:
> Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > In other words, the license adheres to the code, not the author.
> 
> A license that isn't a contract (a bare permission) can be freely
> revoked by the licensor, as in an invitation to enter onto land: if
> the landowner changes his mind, the licensee instantly becomes a
> trespasser.

*shock*  *dismay*

I never thought I'd say this, but:  'Only UCITA can save us now.'
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip at valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K



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