Actually, it might be worse than that. A debacle has recently
occured over in Perl-land. In summary:
1) Perl developer A released some Perl code under "the terms of Perl
itself", ie, distribution under the GPL and/or Artistic License
(AL).
2) This code did some very useful things. It was so useful that Perl
developer B incorporated developer A's code into the core perl
distribution, perhaps making some changes along the way.
3) Discussions ensued.
4) Developer A announced that it was his belief that the GPL was
a revocable license: that is, that he, the copyright holder,
had the right to revoke the GPL, and demand that no further copies
be distributed under the terms of the GPL. He requested that
all existing copies on public FTP archives would be deleted.
Concurrently, developer A released a new version of his software,
under a more restrictive, GPL-incompatible license.
Craig Milo Rogers
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