Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:41:43 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030516073557.01e053b8@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <3EC485F8.2BDF90B8@mindspring.com> References: <3EC2FB53.67559AB6@bellatlantic.net> <p05210624bae9e847752d@[128.113.24.47]>
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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. 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. Colin Percival
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