Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

From: Yuliy Pisetsky <mentalchaos@cox.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
	Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
	Diego Calleja Garc?a <diegocg@teleline.es>,
	Michael Bernstein <michael@seven-angels.net>,
	gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F200BD6.3040304@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030724160146.GF12647@work.bitmover.com>

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?