Re: [OFF TOPIC] BK license change

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Florian (&all) ,  BK is (primarily in this community) used
	by the kernel maintainers .  What happens to the little guy who
	may make a once a year contribution & uses BK ?  Also what methods
	of announcement for New BK versions are there ?  Because as soon
	as a new version is advertised the copy I am using even if I am
	unaware of the newer version I do not have a valid license to use
	it .  This is per your remarks below .
	I'd -really- like to see what would happen if something like this
	were placed on the GCC sources .  Me thinks linus et-al would be
	creating their own compiler .  Just some food for thought .
		Twyl ,  JimL

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Pavel Machek <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> > Oh and btw how can you change licence retroactively? Those "abusers" have
> > right to continue to use old versions under old licences...
>
> BK licenses become invalid as soon as a new BK version is released
> which contains bug fixes or behaves differently in any way.
>
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