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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:08:36 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Market share and platform support
Message-ID:  <003101befbbf$e22bd000$021d85d1@youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost>

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> At 10:42 AM 9/9/99 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:

> It wouldn't have to allow it. All WC would need to do is assert its legal
> right to its employees' work, and it would own code in the tree. And
> could license it however it wanted.
>
> I seem to recall a lawsuit by a large telephone company in which there
> was a similar issue.

	Oh sure, all they'd have to do is deny having knowingly released it under
the BSD license. "What those CDROMs we sold? We had no idea our employee's
work was on them! And we had no idea they were under the BSD license!".

	Somehow, I can't imagine that argument being made with a straight face.

	DS



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