Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:30:52 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <19990223203052.B216@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990223202900.6736E-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>; from Narvi on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:30:48PM %2B0200 References: <36D2AF58.A2FB5E82@uk.radan.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990223202900.6736E-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:30:48PM +0200, Narvi wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> a) it would be the worst thing to do - for FreeBSD a complete PR
> catastrophe.
> b) they would not depend upon courts but on publicity and flaming and
> boycotts, etc.
>
I realize that, and that is, I suspect, the main reason why we
respect the terms of the GPL (even if we don't agree with them).
What I was more interested in was the legal situation if a commercial
organization were to use GPL'd code in that way. I hardly think M$
would be concerned about bad PR from the Linux world.
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