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SubjectRe: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 17:59 -0500, mreuther@umich.edu wrote:
> There was a recent lawsuit, settled before judgement, in the USA over
> the ownership of a GPL program that implemented a copyrighted standard.

The document (as such) containing the standard is copyrighted.
But this has nothing to do with: "I read the standard somewhere somehow
and implement it in some piece of GPLed software."
What do you exactly really mean?

> The name of the case was Drew Technologies v. Society of Automotive
> Engineers.

URL?

Bernd
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