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Yes, stuck forever, because there is absolutely no way I could pick up a telephone and have a pleasant conversation with the person responsible for making that
by how_gauche 16y ago
Yes, stuck forever, because there is absolutely no way I could pick up a telephone and have a pleasant conversation with the person responsible for making that decision. He lives in a cold granite tower guarded by dragons and evil wizards. And snakes. Thousands of poisonous snakes.
- cookiecaper 16y agoYou might be able to do this for now, but you won't be able to when Oracle buys Google.
- how_gauche 16y agoYes, when Oracle buys Google the absolutely bog-standard BSD license text accompanying this open source project will spontaneously transmute into a mystical poem written in ancient Aramaic. This poem, when read backwards, will summon the demon Yog-Sothoth from the depths of Larry Ellison's underpants to remove my right to use the code however I wish provided I retain the copyright message and license text somewhere in the accompanying documentary materials. Oh wait: no it won't.
- jrockway 16y agoNo, they'll just claim the software is patented, and that the BSD license doesn't grant anyone a right to use the software. (Hey, I wish we could live in a world where we could all write software and not worry about copyrights and patents. But that, sadly, is not the world we live in.)
- zokier 16y agoThey can do that already now.