On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:31:19AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Yeah, because there is *no* difference whatsoever between: > > "We're sorry, upstream did not make clear to us the full > licensing terms of their software. Now that we have > found out, we've fixed it as quickly as possible." > and > "Yeah, upstream didn't tell us before, so we shipped it then > and since we did before, we're just going to ignore our > principles and ship it for another two years. Hope you don't > mind! If you do, either write a free replacement or 'shut the > fuck up.'" > > Oh, and there is a legal difference between unknowingly infringing on a > copyright and knowingly infringing on one.
You do realize that all stable releases are archived? Once a package is out in a stable release, we don't ever stop distributing it. And since this code is already in the current stable release, making a new one with the same code does indeed not intensify the problem. Richard Braakman
