From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 21:47:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0841C37B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5842543F75 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfjpt.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.207.61] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19GtbB-0002e8-00; Fri, 16 May 2003 21:47:10 -0700 Message-ID: <3EC5BE83.88B2C630@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 21:45:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival References: <3EC2FB53.67559AB6@bellatlantic.net> <5.0.2.1.1.20030516073557.01e053b8@popserver.sfu.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a47f2736a2d444460c6a8171ef4698498d93caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 04:47:19 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > At 23:32 15/05/2003 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > >If you can buy a copy of the SCO Linux product before it's > >no longer available, do it: the legal theory that made them > >withdraw the offer for sale of the product was that their > >sale of it under the GPL granted royalty free license to > >use their IP contained therein with no royalty, in perpetuity. > > I'm not aware of any legal theory which makes it possible to grant > someone a license by mistake. Who said anything about "by mistake"? If you release under a particular license, it's on purpose. > Providing that someone from SCO stands up in > court and says "as soon as we realized that our proprietary code had been > inserted into the linux project we were distributing, we stopped > distributing it", I think any reasonable court would rule that their code > had not been licensed under the GPL. Works only if they terminate the already outstanding licenses: Ex Post Facto. -- Terry