From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269423AbTGXQW6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:22:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271707AbTGXQW6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:22:58 -0400 Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net ([68.1.17.116]:59898 "EHLO lakemtao05.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269423AbTGXQW5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:22:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3F200BD6.3040304@cox.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:50 -0500 From: Yuliy Pisetsky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030604 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: "Richard B. Johnson" , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux References: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine> <141DFFFA-BBA4-11D7-A61F-000A95773C00@seven-angels.net> <20030721205940.7190f845.diegocg@teleline.es> <1059058329.957.11.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030724150841.GA12647@work.bitmover.com> <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: >>At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with >>claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages. >> >> >... > > >>Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person >>found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it, >>unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property >>in question. >> >> > >Yeah, right. > > ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that > they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back. > Finders keepers, right?'' > >What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is >incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct >personal experience. > > A more reasonable analogy is that you download a bunch of free programs while one of them has some copy-righted music in it for sound effects. Surely you'd have the ability to remove this once you found out without penalty?