How come GPL code becomes un-GPL and then disappears

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On 05/25/2009 03:25:55 PM, James McDonald wrote:
>> My point is certain companies unhost the GPL code and then you have
>> to request it and then it's up to their good graces if they reply.
>
> IANAL, YMMV, IIBYGTKBP.
>
> Request the code and see what happens. As for taking GPLed
> code un-free, I don't know what the GPL implications are. Jerry
> is right, though, you just run with the last free version of
> the source code and fork it. $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY might tell
> you to, um, fork off, too. But, if you don't at least ask, you
> know for sure what you'll get.
>

My question is, how _old_ is this code?  I would take code off public
access if it was old and I didn't want to maintain/update it.
Wouldn't you?  And if you asked, I'd provide it to you with all the
same provisos: we don't support this anymore.  As Kurt said:
IIBYGTKBP.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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