On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Ryan Lane rlane@wikimedia.org wrote:
If there's a crucial bot or tool that uses a proprietary license and the benefactor decides to revoke its license, what do we do?
I don't think licenses usually work that way.
If I share some code under an open source license, I can't later decide to revoke it.
Similarly, if I share some application or library under a freeware license (gratis, but not open source), I think I can't later decide to just revoke it (unless the original license terms clearly stated that I can do that, or unless it was a time-limited license to begin with). I can decide to put later versions of the software under different terms but that's all I can do.
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]