From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 05:21:59 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 DDB3D16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta2.adelphia.net (mta2.adelphia.net [68.168.78.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076C043F85 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030905122200.QNVJ9596.mta2.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:22:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3F587FE6.6060107@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:21:58 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030904135920.03aab5e0@localhost> <20030905033417.GA1374@online.fr> <3F584DFC.DAE597D7@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3F584DFC.DAE597D7@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 12:22:00 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: >>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? My point here is that it's not the GPL that's causing the problems, it's the legal system, and the copanies that try to use it as a revenue stream. As long as the legal system allows people to file lawsuits as a method of generating income (as opposed to actually protecting themselves) there will always be the danger of _any_ license, copyright, or agreement of any kind creating a lawsuit. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com