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Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:31:09 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Market share and platform support
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199909091542.KAA27568@free.pcs>
References:  <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990909103127$0200@fish.pcs> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/4.2.0.58.19990909032923.045a1da0@localhost> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/000001befaaa$e6b4b760$021d85d1@youwant.to>

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

 >Let's _NOT_ suppose that.  It's just plain stupid.  You seem to forget
>that Jordan is not the sole custodian of FreeBSD.  Such a license would
>absolutely never be able to enter the CVS tree, the global committer 
>community would never allow it.

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.

--Brett



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