Peter Farley wrote: >Then they really ought to donate it to the open source >community (CBT?) and let the community upgrade it should >they choose to do so.
I have no insight into WSA's situation. In the abstract, frequently it's not legally permissible for Party A to release Software Product X's source code in the way you describe. Party A may have obtained code (or code design inspiration or assistance) from Party B (or from Parties B, C, and D) to incorporate in Software Product X based on specific copyright, contractual, and/or legal terms. In other words, the code may be encumbered in some way. Alternatively, the code might not in fact be encumbered, but Party A might not want to spend much (or any) effort researching this question (the effort isn't free) or to take the risk that Party A's research findings are contested. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
