Re: Eazel's IP/copyright
- From: George <jirka 5z com>
- To: Sam TH <sam uchicago edu>
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Eazel's IP/copyright
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 19:43:10 -0700
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:59:16PM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> This is actually an important question, since the code that is (c)
> Eazel will likely go to creditors/VCs, at which point the source
> license could be revoked. This would mean we would lose Nautilus as a
> part of the GNOME project, which we can all agree would be a terrible
> loss. Of course, this is unlikely, since significant work would have
> to be put into expunging the code not copyrighted to Eazel, and since
> most failed code just gets ignored (fortunately not the case here),
> but it would be a very bad thing.
As far as I understand copyright law you cannot revoke a license. All that
the creditors could do is release a new version that could be proprietary
(sans all non-eazel copyrighted code of course), this is highly unlikely and
doesn't affect us one bit.
George
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George <jirka 5z com>
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