Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:09:23 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Cc: brett@lariat.org, dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902231909.OAA03734@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <36D2AF58.A2FB5E82@uk.radan.com> from Mark Ovens at "Feb 23, 99 01:38:32 pm"
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Mark Ovens said: > > Surely the only way to enforce the terms of either the GPL or Berkeley > licence is through the courts, but could any organization in the free > software world actually afford such litigation (which I imagine would > run into millions of dollars in the US)? > > If FreeBSD Inc. were to take GPL'd code and add it to the source tree > under a Berkeley-style licence what could the FSF do about it? The 2 > comments quoted above suggest that the FSF could possibly afford legal > action against FreeBSD, but what if it was Sun, IBM, M$ etc. I can't > believe that they could afford to take on a company of that size. > > In other words does this not mean that the GPL etc. relies on other > people being honourable and observing the terms of the licence even > though they may not agree with those terms? > One of the basis of my beliefs is to follow the licenses of others, in meaning and legally. I could not knowingly violate someone elses license and be happy with myself. In a sense, the GPL world is depending on the honor of those who it is most destructive. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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