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To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone
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>
> Are you sure you can find and pay sufficient money to the thousands 
> upon thousands
> of people who contributed code to the linux kernel? In some cases you 
> may not be
> able to contact copyright owners of critical code, in which case you 
> can't distribute
> those pieces at all. The whole point of "Open-Source" is that the 
> users are free to fix
> the bug in the program you sent them, and that they're free to change 
> it however they
> want.

If they are unavailble, I am certain some other enterprising individual 
will replicate similiar
code and get the $$$.

>
> In any case, Alan Cox's "offer" was for $100,000 per copy, not $50,000 
> for an eternal
> license. :-D


In business, counter negotiation is allowed. We will pay $50,000.00 in 
cold, hard cash to be
allowed to snapshot a single 2.<even number> release that allows GPL 
conversion to a BSD
style license. This offer is real and we are ready to write a check today.

Jeff

>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
>
>
>
>

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