Was cp4break released under the GNU General Public License?
Eddy and I think it’s not GPL. Some people think it is GPL, despite Eddy’s and my statements on the matter. An authoritative answer would have to come from a judge, or at least a lawyer. Bennett Haselton (of Peacefire) and I almost got into an “Is not! Is too!” argument about this on a radio show where we were both guests. (Saved only by our mutual respect and politeness.) The GNU General Public License, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a special set of licensing terms which can be applied to computer software. The GPL states that the creator of the software retains copyright, but allows the whole world to freely copy and use the software under certain conditions. Many important pieces of software, including the GNU C Compiler (gcc) and the Linux operating system, are under GPL. This would be an issue, of course, because if the software associated with our essay was GPL, the GNU GPL is supposed to be irrevocable, and so even if Microsystems might now own the copyrights, they would still
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