From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 06:08:49 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 2C16916A4C0 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (user-0cdfelp.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.186.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C420043FE5 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@online.fr) Received: (qmail 931 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Sep 2003 13:08:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:08:40 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20030905130840.GC617@online.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Mark Murray References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030904135920.03aab5e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030904205124.038334c0@localhost> <20030905033417.GA1374@online.fr> <3F584DFC.DAE597D7@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F584DFC.DAE597D7@mindspring.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster 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: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:08:49 -0000 Terry Lambert said on Sep 5, 2003 at 01:49:00: > > That said, we live in a litigious world, and if some nasty person really > > wants to sue you on flippant copyright or patent violation or other > > grounds (like SCO), you must have deep pockets (like IBM). Of all > > organisations in the world, be assured that the FSF is the least likely > > to sue you for anything less than brazen cut-and-pasting of entire > > programs, despite your personal vendetta against them. > > What about if the GPL'ed code came from SCO or IBM, granting that > SCO is litigious, and IBM has deep pockets? I don't think Brett Glass considers them evil, so he won't worry. In practice, if IBM really wanted to sue you, they could do it without bringing in the GPL: any code you write probably infringes a dozen of their patents. Look at their reply to SCO and the patents cited therein. (They also cite GPL infringement there but that's because it is indeed directly relevant.) Basically, as Mark says, there are more important things to worry about in life. -- Rahul