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Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java


From: John Hasler
Subject: Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:44:32 -0600
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Alexander Terekhov writes:
> <http://sco.tuxrocks.com/Docs/IBM/IBM-342.pdf>

Hilarious.  So now TSG admits that the GPL is valid and enforceable again?
Right into the trap.

And note the "thousands" (in other places "hundreds of thousands") of lines
of "misappropriated" code.  So where is the copyright infringement claim?

David Kastrup writes:
> While it seems rather likely to me that SCO's defense here will be
> eventually stricken down, I doubt that the GPL's terms itself will have
> much to do with that.

IBM will demolish most of it in their reply.  The rest they will use
against TSG, which itself previously distributed all the material that it
claims IBM was not authorized to distribute under the GPL.  Their ludicrous
claim that they did so unknowingly has already been demolished.  TSG will
be forced to choose between admitting that it breached the GPL or that it
licensed the material in question under the GPL.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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