Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268148AbUJJGhM (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:37:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268145AbUJJGhM (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:37:12 -0400 Received: from ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.46]:40390 "EHLO ylpvm15.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268148AbUJJGf4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:35:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:35:41 -0700 To: Dave Jones , "Jeff V\. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey\@comcast\.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone Message-ID: <20041010063541.GA9445@top.worldcontrol.com> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Litzinger , Dave Jones , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> X-No-Archive: yes X-Noarchive: yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: Brian Litzinger Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1916 Lines: 47 > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:17:25PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Then their code could be removed from the snapshot, and the folks who > > were more > > interested in being smart rather than being right would get the $$$. > > That's easy. On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > If you want to spend god alone knows how many hours tracking down > who wrote what and nuking the relevant bits, that's your time to throw > away. If you want the same featureset a little faster however, I > believe SCO are still selling Openserver licenses. INAL, but some many years ago I was involved in intellectual property rights goings on. At least in New York and California the owner of intellectual property has to defend his property. Otherwise it becomes abandoned. (just like real property) So similar to the license change for Mozilla, one simply announces their intent suitably loud enough, waits a while, and then it yours. Basically, Jeff pays $50,000 for right X. Those who don't want to participate have 1 year to announce their desire not to participate and identify the code contribution that will not be part of the license deal. After a year everyone knows where they stand, and the untold millions of contributors who did not stand up to be counted are irrelavent. (well not entirely irrelavent, they could after the year is up file a claim, but they'd probably lose individually. On the other hand, Jeff isn't going to get an injunction against them all and litigating and winning a million IP cases is likely to be quite a money loser, at least in the US) As to international goings on I have no idea. -- Brian Litzinger - 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/