On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:33:53PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > While I'm not disputing your assertion that Microsoft may exploit copyrigth > holders who use their various free services to recover their operating costs > or increase profits, I do contest your assertion that a general public > license, once granted, can be revoked. License and patent grants made in > exchange for consideration are permanent unless otherwise explicitly stated. > The right to make, modify, and distribute copies of a program licensed under > the GPL is granted in exchange for a number of considerations, including the > requirement that you make source code available to those you give binaries.
It's not my assertion; it's the original author's. This point has actually been raised on another mailing list.
