Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL

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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Re:copies already obtained

[calebt3]

From the article/letter:

If you are currently distributing the atscap or pchdtvr packages, or any part thereof, it is in your best interest to destroy all copies in your possession and notify all recipients of either the atscap or pchdtvr packages, or any part thereof, that the licensing under the GPL for both packages has been revoked by the author.

Re:copies already obtained

[glwtta]

"I have also revoked the licensing under the GPL for the pchdtvr version 1.0 codebase, all prior versions of the pchdtvr codebase and all release candidates of the pchdtvr codebase"

You didn't bother reading TFA even the tiniest little bit, did you?

Re:copies already obtained

[Ghostworks]

FTA: : I have revoked the licensing under the GNU General Public License (herein after referred to as "the GPL") for the atscap version 1.1 codebase, all prior versions of the atscap codebase and all the various release candidates of the atscap codebase.

I have also revoked the licensing under the GPL for the pchdtvr version 1.0 codebase, all prior versions of the pchdtvr codebase and all release candidates of the pchdtvr codebase, including all of the various interim pchdtvr versions after version 1.0 and before the name was changed to atscap.

He used the phrase "revoked". Furthermore, he said it would be in everyone's best interest to unistall and/or destroy all copies of his code that they may have. While this demonstrates his tenuous grasp on the ideas behind the GPL, he still made those claims in his post

Re:GPL

[wolverine1999]

mod parent up.. its very relevant