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Article #833Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
From: David Damerell
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> wrote: >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. They'd still have violated the copyright of the authors of the GPLed code with the earlier versions (implying that money could be extracted); and they'd have quite the problem if they suddenly had to stop distributing all existing versions of Windows, wouldn't they? -- damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk T000B320O500T000N230O500T000L000D510G653I500 T000V430H600T000T000V453S530A530T000D625T000B453T000E200T300S500A530T000V220 A530T000S525A530T000L500O500L500T200I200T000F462T000C415H532A554F400F650T000 A554G453I500T000V430H600T000T000V453S530G520R530A530A653A530A653A530A653A530
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty Date: 2000/04/05 Message-ID: <21*uTToo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 607138959 References: <slrn8eii76.29b.philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> <m3aej8vjf3.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk> <0hD*EMToo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <87bt3o8q9u.fsf@piracy.red-bean.com> Organization: Linux Unlimited Reply-To: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: damerell@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1])