[ILUG] sun licensing of OpenOffice

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:36:25AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John Gill thought:
>  
> > > If this is the issue, then why not use the Gnome Foundation.  Ie 
> > > instead of making people sign copywrite over to Sun, let them 
> > > sign it over to the Gnome Foundation.
> > > 
> > > I think people would find that much more palatable.
> > > 
> > Not having an opinion on the subject myself, does this not give rise to
> > difficulties in lawsuits?  
> > 
> > I.e., If Sun own the copyright on *all* of the originally released code
> > while new additions are copyright Gnome Foundation, what is the status of
> > an alleged copyright infringement where part of the plagerised code is
> > copyright to Sun Corp and part to Gnome Foundation?  Can a defendant claim
> > that the whole bolck of code does not infringe on either copyright since
> > each is for only part of the code?
> > 
> > 0.02c
>  
> Yes, but there is a very easy way round that:  Sun should also 
> sign their copywrite over to the Gnome Foundation.  
> 
> John
Believe that and you'll believe anything.  None of these corporations have
gone open-source for altruistic reasons, they all see it as the way
forward but, just because they release their code, doesn't mean they're
prepared to lose control of it!

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)