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Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 12.02.2011, 13:00

> Jim is a GPL zealot, seriously, he's (semi-correctly)
> obsessed with the "four freedoms", mainly so that nothing comes back to
> bite him or us.

Pffft. I just don't understand GPL zealots. (As developer) I want the fifth freedom too: source free of the GPL ;)

> (Though an older version with
> sources is still on iBiblio, oddly enough, but mostly because nobody
> complained, very very few FTP admins exist, nobody keeps those files up,
> etc.)

Does the license that this version was offered under grant the right for usage and redistribution indefinitely, or did it allow the author to retract these rights? In the latter case, even though (as user) I don't care as much about freedoms, I would agree that this license then wasn't particularly attractive. If the former is true, however, then there can't be anything wrong with mirroring this older version.

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Complete thread:

• Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Khusraw, 10.02.2011, 15:14 (Announce)
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - RayeR, 10.02.2011, 16:21
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - rr, 10.02.2011, 22:47
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 02:10
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - ecm, 12.02.2011, 13:00
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 20:48
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - marcov, 14.02.2011, 11:04
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - dave11, 02.03.2011, 00:01
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 02.03.2011, 01:09
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - roytam, 26.02.2015, 04:43