Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:29:35 -0600 | | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | | Subject | Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone |
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> > Are you sure you can find and pay sufficient money to the thousands > upon thousands > of people who contributed code to the linux kernel? In some cases you > may not be > able to contact copyright owners of critical code, in which case you > can't distribute > those pieces at all. The whole point of "Open-Source" is that the > users are free to fix > the bug in the program you sent them, and that they're free to change > it however they > want.
If they are unavailble, I am certain some other enterprising individual will replicate similiar code and get the $$$.
> > In any case, Alan Cox's "offer" was for $100,000 per copy, not $50,000 > for an eternal > license. :-D
In business, counter negotiation is allowed. We will pay $50,000.00 in cold, hard cash to be allowed to snapshot a single 2.<even number> release that allows GPL conversion to a BSD style license. This offer is real and we are ready to write a check today.
Jeff
> > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett > > > >
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