Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="CP 1252"
From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>, jonathan@jonmasters.org
Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:26:27 -0500
Cc: "jmerkey@comcast.net" <jmerkey@comcast.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com>
In-Reply-To: <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-Id: <04100415262700.21432@tabby>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1053
Lines: 21

On Friday 01 October 2004 16:53, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
> >>Then anyone who uses the code in a commerical enterprise will be required
> >> to get a license, and you can actually do something about it.
> >
> >They have a license. If they distribute products then they are bound
> >by the terms of the GPL and this is a pretty obvious license.
>
> Try enforcing it in court when they get a dozen of their engineers to
> lie and state they reviewed the code on one terminal and
> converted it by writing new code on another. There's no moral anything
> with some of these big companies and their employees
> will say whatever they have to.

And are now guilty of perjury. And when shown as such in court, will be/can
be put in jail for quite a time. Nope - won't do it. As SCO has found out.
-
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/