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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: kilobug@freesurf.fr, lm@work.bitmover.com
Cc: jesse@cats-chateau.net, lgcdutra@terra.com.br,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com
Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307251533.h6PFXOQk001185@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)

>  >> Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for
>  >> whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to
>  >> get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK...
>
>  > Oh, I see, you violate our license, your license is revoked, and
>  > now you have the write to reverse engineer BK?  Show me the law which 
>  > says that is true.
>
> I was working  on a project during  my free time using BK,  and then I
> get employed  by a company  contributing to Subversion. My  license is
> then void, but I want to be  able to still use the files and servers I
> used before. Reverse is allowed, and moral, in this case.

What if a patent is discovered which is owned by somebody other than
Larry, which covers something in BK?  If nobody is allowed to use BK,
how would we get the data out?

John.

             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25 15:33 John Bradford [this message]
2003-07-25 15:36 ` Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way Valdis.Kletnieks
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-26 20:20 John Bradford
2003-07-26 19:46 Hank Leininger
2003-07-25  9:34 Samium Gromoff
2003-07-25 13:27 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-24 11:51 Dean McEwan
2003-07-24 22:25 ` Stefan Reinauer
2003-07-24 10:35 Samium Gromoff
2003-07-24  8:40 Dean McEwan
2003-07-24  8:58 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-24  9:46   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 18:06     ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-24 20:02       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 21:05         ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-24 21:57           ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 22:24             ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-25  9:56             ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-25 14:39               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26  2:52                 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-26  3:18                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 13:17             ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-25 14:55               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 15:15                 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-25 15:33                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-26 19:10             ` Rik van Riel
2003-07-26 19:23               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26 19:46                 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-26 20:01                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26 21:08                     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-26 20:21                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-24  9:05 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-27  9:21   ` Kai Henningsen
2003-07-24 11:30 ` viro

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