From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269523AbTGXRHk (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:07:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269514AbTGXRHj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:07:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:43718 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269509AbTGXRHh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:07:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:22:25 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Ian Hastie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux Message-ID: <20030724172225.GH12647@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Ian Hastie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine> <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> <200307241752.46140.ianh@iahastie.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307241752.46140.ianh@iahastie.local.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Ian Hastie wrote: > There is a difference between getting something knowing it > to be improperly obtained and believing it to be the property of the > supplier. Just to follow your example, you buy a second hand disc or > computer. When you hook it up you find a load of illegal MP3s. If what you > say is correct you'd be guilty of theft, or at the very least copyright > infringement. You bet you would. Unless you could make a case that the seller sold you the system with legal rights to that data, and that case would have to include some plausible fee for the data, then the judge would say "there is no free lunch son, if the deal looked too good to be true, it was and you saying you didn't know isn't an excuse". -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm