Re: SCO laying an ambush for the GPL?

[Greg Hennessy]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:56:48 +0200, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>
wrote:


>
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00316.html


From

>http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00390.html
>

quoting RMS

http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-April/004321.html


"My method of accessing the web through email and wget does not work
for binary files, so I don't know what is in that file."

Childish evasive BS

~ # curl -I http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/asay-paper.pdf
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:51:58 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:48:45 GMT
ETag: "81d4-8e673-3d98806d"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 583283
Content-Type: application/pdf


~ # wget http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/asay-paper.pdf
--13:47:56--  http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/asay-paper.pdf
           => `asay-paper.pdf'
Resolving www.linuxdevices.com... done.
Connecting to www.linuxdevices.com[216.218.185.154]:80... connected
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 583,283 [application/pdf]

100%[==============================================================

13:47:59 (175.91 KB/s) - `asay-paper.pdf' saved [583283/583283]


" I suspect that if one were to study all the statements carefully we would
find that you're trying to put something valid in a bad light."
 


Keep up the good work Alexander, that's a very interesting thread quoted. 

Is Stallman *really* trying to assert that calling code using Ndiswrapper
makes *windows* drivers derivative works & therefore GPL'd ?!?
 



greg


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