> Mark Rafn wrote: > >Also, Debian should not distribute software whose author has given an > >indication that he intends to retroactively change a license. It's under > >question whether this is possible, but I don't want to be a test case.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Hugo Espuny wrote: > I have heard this in the thread before, but you have to help me with > this one. From which part of copyright text you extract that? You can't really take it from copyright text. I only mention it because the author lists "change the license" as an action he might take, and it's unclear what he means by that. > BTW, as far as i remember, PHP-Nuke till 6.0 has not included the evil > copyright addendum. So, until FB changes retroactively the copyright as > you suggest he is thinking about, i suppose previous versions are GPL > and DFSG compliant. Technically so, but his comments seem to indicate that he thought it was a requirement all along. If this is the case, we should honor his wishes by not distributing the software. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/>
