Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:01:46 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux |
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> At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with > claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages. ... > Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person > found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it, > unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property > in question.
Yeah, right.
``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back. Finders keepers, right?''
What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct personal experience. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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