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Peter Naulls wrote:
Tarquin Mills <email address snipped by me> wrote:
Paul Vigay wrote:
skok wrote:
That does not say much, does it? Basicly, he has reasons for not updating his software, but he will not say what those reasons are...
So what? It's his software, and his reasons! End of story really!
This a strange view for a free software advocate (JF) to take, as the one of the points of free software is that it is owned by everyone, i.e. the Creative Commons.
No, this is naive in the extreme. In particular, the software under the GPL very much belongs to the copyright holder. Other licences have variations on this.
To quote the Anglia Linux User Group the free software movement is against copyright and the GPL is just an anti-copyright copyright (quinophex). One of the points of the GPL is that the source code is freely available and can be modified and redistributed. Justin Fletcher is not doing this with his software. BTW do not put my email address in usenet postings as this increases spamming.