In article <0oum825hbad6pg3h6fd4hhav4qads90etl@4ax.com>,
 f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:00:45 +0200, Alonzo <n_matter@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Crunch3r has asked that all versions of his software for Seti be
deleted from peoples computers

2. cruncher can ask but you don't have to follow. it is not illegal to
use his versions and i will use them until berkeley won't send new
work on this.

There is QUITE the discussion regarding this, seems Crunch3r used a
program to tweak the Berkeley software. According to some if he then
deletes that program we can no longer use his products. Got to do with
Copyright and how WE don't own, the program he used, it but only use
the product of his work. Therefore when he deletes the "master" we
must delete any product of that "master".

Not so, according to Berkeley; the SETI@home open-source software is 
under GPL--see the notices that came with the S@h app in your projects 
folder. You can't _distribute_ it without the source (or a link 
thereto), but if you obtained it legitimately there's no law or contract 
to stop you _using_ it. And no-one modifying such open-source code has 
the right to impose additional conditions on the licence.

-- 
Odysseus