Re: [OFF TOPIC] BK license change

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 08:45:46 EST


        Hello Florian (&all) , BK is (primarily in this community) used
        by the kernel maintainers . What happens to the little guy who
        may make a once a year contribution & uses BK ? Also what methods
        of announcement for New BK versions are there ? Because as soon
        as a new version is advertised the copy I am using even if I am
        unaware of the newer version I do not have a valid license to use
        it . This is per your remarks below .
        I'd -really- like to see what would happen if something like this
        were placed on the GCC sources . Me thinks linus et-al would be
        creating their own compiler . Just some food for thought .
                Twyl , JimL

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > Oh and btw how can you change licence retroactively? Those "abusers" have
> > right to continue to use old versions under old licences...
>
> BK licenses become invalid as soon as a new BK version is released
> which contains bug fixes or behaves differently in any way.
>
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