Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- ACT's reaction

2007-04-07 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.actonline.org/documents/ACT-GPLv3-Legal-Risks.pdf (GPLv3: The Legal Risks of Overreaching for Third Party Patent Rights) At some point, efforts to block patent licenses that are legally entered into and fully consistent with contract law, as well as the intellectual property laws en

Question about GPL theft

2007-04-07 Thread Geico Caveman
Imagine the following scenario. One of the BSDs copies some GPL'ed code and releases it under the BSD license. True to form and history, Microsoft then copies that "BSD" code into its own codebase and releases it under a proprietary license. What happens legally now ? Isn't Microsoft the recipien

Re: Question about GPL theft

2007-04-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You cannot steal code, so such an analogy is without a point. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Question about GPL theft

2007-04-07 Thread Tin Tin
One of the BSDs copies some GPL'ed code and releases it under the BSD license. What you stated has just happened. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746 ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m