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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