Submission + - License blues
El Lobo writes: Since many years ago the Delphi community has been using a great set of components to add unicode support to the Delphi VCL. The TNT components have been used in a lot of important projects (from the top of my head, Skype, Cobian Backup and others). Many open sources projects and derivated components were based on the Tnt components since their original license was very permissive (BSD like). Now the components have been adquired by TNS Software and they are charging 30 euros for them. That's fine and dandy, but the original author and the new owners are trying to revoke the original license and are disallowing people to freely distributing the old libraries. Of course the existing Open Source projects will kind of die if this happens.
So the question of the day between Delphi users is: Does the copyright owner have the right to change the license? OTOH, making arbitrary changes like this, could potentially destroy whole projects that were based on this set of components. Where is the limit here, legally and morally, for an author to change or revoke a license?
So the question of the day between Delphi users is: Does the copyright owner have the right to change the license? OTOH, making arbitrary changes like this, could potentially destroy whole projects that were based on this set of components. Where is the limit here, legally and morally, for an author to change or revoke a license?
