[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose that someday a Free Software hacker writes a beautiful darcs GUI using
the SWT graphics toolkit. Suppose that by the time this happens, and the
darcs authors become aware of it, that it is too late to secure relicensing
permissions for the necessary darcs code because the author of the code is
incommunicado or dead. Then it will be legally impossible for anyone to
distribute a version of darcs integrated with that beautiful GUI, and in fact
it may be illegal for people to distribute that GUI at all. I am almost sure
that this is not the intent of the darcs authors.
You've used this example a couple of times now, and it continues to not
make sense to me.
How is a Java program going to include Haskell source code?
Why did this incommunicado or dead Java programmer release a
Darcs-derived program under the CPL instead of the GPL, when he knew the
GPL forbade it?
Really, the only thing I can see about this example is that maybe the
GPL should have a zombie clause so that dead Java programmers can be
brought back to life just so they can be sued for breaking the GPL.
What is illegal is distributing the Java program in the first place
under the GPL. It would be legal to treat the Java program, after the
death or disapearance of the author, as itself GPL licensed code. In
which case there would be no problem of distributing "that beautiful
GUI" with Darcs.
I'm really confused by your examples.
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