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Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/libsvn_client add.c apply_edits.c checkout.c client.h commit.c delete.c status.c update.c

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2000-11-22 22:41:10 CET

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:17:45PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > I saw how Karl missed your point when I read his reply, and I read
> > your response, and I still don't see how your scenario differs from
> > mine. With the license we have right now, I can take code you've
> > written, make some changes, and release the modified work under a
> > draconian license, just like you described AOL doing with some
> > compelling proprietary change to Mozilla.
>
> Yes.
>
> In other words, CollabNet doesn't *need* to change the license in the
> future -- they can just grab the code, like any other third-party
> would, and do what they want anyway. :-)

True.

All righty, then. Now I'm just -0 on a "later version" clause, and will
refrain from any more discourse against the clause :-) Back to reading
email...

[ well, Dragonball Z in 20 minutes, actually ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:15 2006

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