[H-GEN] GPL or not??

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:10:31PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Finally, the author is free to change how he licences the program at any
> time.  For example lets say you have obtained a copy of his program
> under the GPL, then the author advises you that he has changed licensing
> of the program so that now you can not make copies without giving him
> money.  He is perfectly within his rights to do that, at least under
> Australian law.

Apparently. There's no real case law on this for free software, just
some well informed speculation.

> IANAL, but I listened to
> a talk given by one at the LCA.  When he made this last point the
> audience was dumb struck for a few seconds.
    
For those playing along at home, the paper is at:

	 http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/licencearticle.html

It's a much fuller analysis than there was time for in the "Best Of" repeat
of the talk, at least.

Cheers,
aj

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