[JDEV] FW: WASTE and Jabber

[Alon Weinstein]

Paul Curtis wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Julian Missig wrote:
> 
>> Oh, and uh, WASTE is not even of questionable legal status.. that code 
>> is essentially illegal to possess, so I'm not sure it's really worth 
>> investigating all that much.
> 
> 
> Curious ... on what grounds is it illegal? (not a debate, just stupidity)
> 
> Paul

You can read about in the links given by Saint-Andre. Nullsoft's 
developers, which are employees of AOL (Nullsoft belongs to AOL) 
released the code without telling AOL. AOL quickly removed the code and 
marked it AOL-owned-proprietry code. So the code is out because people 
downloaded it, but it is in no way GPLed/BSDed or anything like that.