Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271696AbTGXPrR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271698AbTGXPrR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:47:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:15808 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271696AbTGXPrQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:47:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:01:46 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Larry McVoy , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux Message-ID: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , "Richard B. Johnson" , Larry McVoy , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML References: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine> <141DFFFA-BBA4-11D7-A61F-000A95773C00@seven-angels.net> <20030721205940.7190f845.diegocg@teleline.es> <1059058329.957.11.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030724150841.GA12647@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 25 > At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with > claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages. ... > Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person > found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it, > unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property > in question. Yeah, right. ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back. Finders keepers, right?'' What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct personal experience. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/