Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:02:03 -0400 |
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On Oct 07, 2004, at 17:17, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Then their code could be removed from the snapshot, and the folks who > were more > interested in being smart rather than being right would get the $$$. > That's easy.
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.
In any case, Alan Cox's "offer" was for $100,000 per copy, not $50,000 for an eternal license. :-D
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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