[sldev] Re: [PROTOCOL] Protocol Documentation

[dirk husemann]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 05-Oct-2007, at 01:52, dirk husemann wrote:
>> as we have seen
>> with SCO you have ALWAYS the possibility of a greedy fool trying to
>> attack you anyhow (e.g., claiming that the code you used was stolen from
>> him, don't mind the BSD/GPL/whatever license).
>
> Um, the SCO case was coming from exactly the opposite direction. They
> were claiming that certain GPLed code was derived from their code,
> because it had been part of a system derived from their code. If they
> actually *had* the licenses they claimed they had, *and* their license
> terms meant what they claimed they meant, then they might have had had
> a case. Their problems included:
originally they claimed that code had been copied pretty much literally
from their code basis --- thus, claiming that code that was used in
linux was copied from them. not sure how that is the opposite direction.

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