Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:24 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200307251533.h6PFXOQk001185@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: kilobug@freesurf.fr, lm@work.bitmover.com
Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.
Cc: jesse@cats-chateau.net, lgcdutra@terra.com.br,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com
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>  >> Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for
>  >> whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to
>  >> get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK...
>
>  > Oh, I see, you violate our license, your license is revoked, and
>  > now you have the write to reverse engineer BK?  Show me the law which 
>  > says that is true.
>
> I was working  on a project during  my free time using BK,  and then I
> get employed  by a company  contributing to Subversion. My  license is
> then void, but I want to be  able to still use the files and servers I
> used before. Reverse is allowed, and moral, in this case.

What if a patent is discovered which is owned by somebody other than
Larry, which covers something in BK?  If nobody is allowed to use BK,
how would we get the data out?

John.
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