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Originally posted by et voilą
Philippe, you should join the official LW IRC channel, you would know it is coming... no way to avoid it. It is a branch for now, but a branch ready to get into mainline. LimeWire as we know it will change, and when that happens, everybody will be happy that an alternative based on the same engine will be already available. Most open source LW devs have already joined FW project, we would be happy if you consider in time to do the same.
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First I never use IRC. I don't like chatting.
Second, I remains sticked on the LimeWire project, as long as it remains an open-source project with a GPL licence or a comparable licence such as Creative Commons or a BSD-like licence
Yes, LimeWire LLC, because it is the legitimate copyright owner, can change its licencing terms for any future versionsand at any time. This is true for any open-source project, and should it ever happen it will not change the status of existing code that MUST continue to be distributed under the GPL, including all derivative works made by other people or organizations than LimeWire LLC.
Such restriction of
Exclusive Licencing Terms does not apply to the copyright owner, only to those people that accepted the grant of usage by obtaining and using the software or its sources.
If anyone does not agree with those terms, the GPL explicitly states that the software must be deleted along with all its copies as well as all parts of derivative works based on software licenced under the GPL (including the modifications made by the user itself because those modifications!) and that user looses all its granted rights to redistribute legal copies of the software.
The GPL however states that existing copies granted to other users remain valid under the GPL term, even if the distributor has lost his previously granted distribution rights, and those users MUST still respect the original copyright notice and the licence, as they are bound to the original copyright holder, not to the distributor itself.