Re: commit - <HEAD> Removal of ask installer from build tree

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 15:02:40 EDT

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    At 08:22 PM 5/22/02 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
    >seeing as it is now totally unmaintained win32 software
    >maybe the Abisource people would consider changing the license to
    >something like LGPL or even zlib/png (BSDstyle) to encourage anyone who
    >might actually be interested to use the code (there might parts of
    >interset to the Nullsoft developers).
    >[is Paul Rohr still reading...]

    Yes I am. Three quick comments.

    1. Feel free to ask Eric about this. That was his code, and SourceGear
    currently holds the copyright on it.

    2. I personally dislike the whole "abandonware" approach to licensing
    software, where you change the license on code you don't want to maintain in
    hopes that someone else will do so for you. That rarely works.

    3. However, if someone showed up who actually wanted the code, that'd
    probably be more interesting.

    Just my 3 cents,
    Paul

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