Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 30, 2002 04:49 AM
Thank you. I was about to try to point that out, but you said it very clearly and succinctly.
Basically, if indeed decoders cannot be distrubuted freely, including for payment, then the authors of the decoders have to cease distributing them under the GPL.
Possibly there is some other licence that could be used.
However, what happens to the rights of people who have copies of previously distributed GPLed code. Do they just evaporate?
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Re:Not a problem for sold GPL software, surely?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 30, 2002 04:49 AMBasically, if indeed decoders cannot be distrubuted freely, including for payment, then the authors of the decoders have to cease distributing them under the GPL.
Possibly there is some other licence that could be used.
However, what happens to the rights of people who have copies of previously distributed GPLed code. Do they just evaporate?
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