Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone | Date | Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:26:27 -0500 |
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On Friday 01 October 2004 16:53, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: > >>Then anyone who uses the code in a commerical enterprise will be required > >> to get a license, and you can actually do something about it. > > > >They have a license. If they distribute products then they are bound > >by the terms of the GPL and this is a pretty obvious license. > > Try enforcing it in court when they get a dozen of their engineers to > lie and state they reviewed the code on one terminal and > converted it by writing new code on another. There's no moral anything > with some of these big companies and their employees > will say whatever they have to.
And are now guilty of perjury. And when shown as such in court, will be/can be put in jail for quite a time. Nope - won't do it. As SCO has found out. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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