Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Craig Brozefsky
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Let us imagine that there is some GPLed code in Windoze. That would
> require all of Windoze to be made available under the GPL, which would be
> very amusing for IBM, Sun, Corel, DEC/Compaq, Apple, the FSF,
> AOL/Netscape/Time Warner/Genom Corporation, etc. I suspect there
> would be no shortage of lawyer money to fight that one with...

Or they could take that GPLed code out of the distribution.

-- 
Craig Brozefsky                      <craig@red-bean.com>
Free Scheme/Lisp Software  http://www.red-bean.com/~craig
"Hiding like thieves in the night from life, illusions of 
oasis making you look twice.   -- Mos Def and Talib Kweli

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