On Wed, 18 May 2005, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > > >From what I understand of the history of WASTE. At one time, NullSoft did > infact release WASTE under the GPL. However, AOL (NullSoft's parent company) > didn't like this, and that message on NullSoft's website is because of that. > (And thus, it was origianlly authorized by NullSoft, but not authorized by > AOL.) > > Now, from what I understand, once you release something under the GPL, you > cannot un-release it. And if that is the case, then this software is "OK".
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