Wired Article on the GPL

Chip Salzenberg chip at valinux.com
Thu Mar 30 21:22:53 UTC 2000


According to Nils Lohner:
> This does not make sense.  If I bought the software, and the license
> is changed afterwards, I have to abide by a new license?

No, no, you've confused license with contract.  If you buy the
software, then there is an exchange of considerations, so there
is a (sale) contract involved, and all the rules change.
-- 
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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