Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:05:45 +0100 |
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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?
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