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Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-takey-backsies dept.

The author of ATSC capture and edit tool has announced that he is attempting to revoke the licensing of his product under the GPL General Public License. Unfortunately it appears that the GPL does not allow this particular action. Of course in this heyday of lawyers and trigger happy litigators who can tell. What successes have others had in trying to take something they once operated under the GPL and make it private? And the more pressing question, why?

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  1. copies already obtained by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This appears to be another stupid non story.

    This guy has every right to stop licensing his software under the GPL (note the whole revoke thing is spin from the GPL crowd). the only thing he can't do is expect to change the license of anyone who has a copy already, from that standpoint he granted them a copy of THAT software under the GPL which is a binding contract. this means you are free to carry on as normal with your GPL copy, he can't try charge you money or demand you take down your own distributions.

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    1. Re:copies already obtained by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      whats your point, that i'm some how the first person in the history of /. to skim TFA and miss something at the end of it?

      I doubt you even skimmed TFA, because it's not only at the bottom, it's at the top:

      Subject: PUBLIC NOTICE: atscap and pchdtvr GPL revoked

      Please, just stop posting on Slashdot, and go choke on a bucket of cocks.

    2. Re:copies already obtained by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      revoke doesn't have to mean previous versions numbnuts. the only one that looks childish here is you since you continue to go on the attack even after i've admitted my mistake (you know, what adults do)

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    3. Re:copies already obtained by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      no dick fingers, it's at the bottom as one poster has already pointed out and i've agreed with, yet some of you still seem unable to comphrend. he can revoke the GPL on all his own further versions, he doesn't make the demand to remove YOUR copies until the last 2 paragraphs.

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  2. Re:GM to revoke everybody's car by sykopomp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There -was- that incident with the GM electric cars where they did a similar thing. (The whole thing from Who Killed the Electric Car)