Re: "Preferred form for making modifications"

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:32 +0000, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> The reason I wonder is that there is still an awful lot of old software
> floating around that is still useful to some people, and for all I know
> the source code may be lost forever.  Supposing the copyright holder can
> be tracked down, and is willing to cooperate, is it conceivably possible
> to get all this stuff released under the GPL?

And this is probably why the reasoning is a moot point.

Can any of those programs actually do anything useful? Run at least?

In what architectures? On which computers? Oh which operating systems?

Don't run if you can't walk.... it's better to just use public domain, I
guess.

Rui

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