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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: GPL Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:31:58 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5dfoue$cre@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cmiuu$iud@garuda.synet.net> <5cokgi$alm@web.nmti.com> <L3U8y0gTz/TM091yn@ibm.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <5db0q8$1f6i@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <5dd2mc$ad5@omega.gmd.de> <32FB2E38.7526@umich.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82768 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2354 Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> wrote: > Remember BSD - Lite? AT&T still OWNED the source code, no matter how > widely it had been *published*, and therefore the use of > its proprietary code was restricted when it was sold to Novell. AT&T still *claimed* to own it. The case has never been decided, you should no. It has simply been laid down -- with differing opinions on all sides, but a commonly accepted compromise (that the 4.4BSD-Lite collection was considered freely redistributable). So even in this case, you see that it's almost pointless to try fighting such an issue in court. Remember, AT&T very clearly violated the BSD license, in that they did not mention the Regents of the University of California, as it was required by the license. Even though this seems to be a very clear case, it was not decided. Now go figure about your chances to fight the GPL in court, and even in an international one as you now think. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j