Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Randy Howard Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 03:02 pm Willem wrote (in article ): > It's not black/white anyway, a vendor could, for example, provide a > contract whereby he commits to giving his customers the source code > of a product when he stops providing support for that product. That would mean that Adobe would be forced to release source code for Photoshop 6 or so, as soon as they start saying there won't be bug fixes for an old, out-of-date version. What probably makes more sense is a company saying they would put source code in escrow somehow, in the event that they should fold, or completely discontinue to the product line. However, if they continue to sell the product at newer versions, that you are not willing to upgrade to over time, that's your problem. -- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) .