Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:22:27PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > In these cases where there are grey areas, I wouldn't really trust our > > > opinions to be all that valid. Just as we might not trust a lawyer's > > > advice on how to implement a technical issue, maybe we should consider > > > having a lawyer looking at something that falls under their area of > > > expertise before we go off half-cocked. > >=20 > > Quite right. I believe this step has already been taken. > > You wish. =3D> > > RMS has commented on the opinions of the FSF lawyer(s), but that's the > extent anyone has really looked into the matter other than individual > dists asking their lawyers "will distributing this get us sued?"
So David Walton said "someone should ask a lawyer." I said "I believe someone *has* asked a lawyer." And you first: say "you wish" as if nobody had asked a lawyer, and then second: describe what two different groups of lawyers said in response to some questions on the subject. As I said, someone has. And the answer is: 1) Illegal 2) The KDE people probably won't sue. Mind you, if they had taken *my* GPL'd code and were linking it with QPL'd code, I very well might consider a lawsuit. Thomas