From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 21:07:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C77716A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:07:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD8843D1F for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.1d8.2ec06bf4 (3972) for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:07:29 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <1d8.2ec06bf4.2eb16811@aol.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:07:29 EDT To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:07:32 -0000 In a message dated 10/27/04 4:49:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: This is yet another example of the GPL license flaw. While any of the copyright holders of the Linux kernel could sue Allot, if they don't, it pretty much builds evidence that is going to help those that would argue that the GPL is uninforceable. There's been a couple of other GPL cases like this - of infringement that is being ignored. One of these days I'm going to have to gather up all these and write an article on it. ^------------- A problem with suing a company with a team of lawyers is that is will cost you a fortune, and what do you get? They have to agree not to sell it anymore? Its a pretty big project proving the validity of a license thats never really been seriously tested. You can't really claim damages if you have no intention of making money as a basic premise (and 3 times nothing is nothing). So they probably figure no one is going to do it.