Rekall and associated software go 100% GPL

[David M. Wilson]

"John Dean" <john at rygannon.com> wrote in message news:<3fae9c76$0$12714$fa0fcedb at lovejoy.zen.co.uk>...

> It gives me great pleasure to inform you that Rekall, the cross-platform
> alternative to MS Access, is now totally GPL.

What is TheKompany's stance on this? Did you come to an amicable
agreement before release?

> So please visit
> http://www.totalrekall.co.uk and download download a copy for yourself. In
> order for you to be able to download you must register with the Total Rekall
> Portal. The reason we have have made this a requirement is because we would
> like to be able to notify everybody when a new version becomes available.

I'm sure you are aware, that this is unenforcable under the GPL.
People are free to redistribute without registration requirements. It
is also interesting to see that after going to great (and
controversial) lengths to give your users more freedom through this
new license, you apply this 'petty' restriction of registration and
mandatory notifications of new releases. This seems a little
contradictory to me, 'sall.


David.