🚀 go-pugleaf

On 05 Apr 2000 17:44:02 +0100 (BST), 
David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>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?

They wouldn't have to stop distributing them; they'd just have to
open their source.

I doubt if stopping distributing violating versions of Windows would
allow them to evade that requirement.

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