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| DATE | 2003-06-24 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] I sense a theme here...
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Where did SCO get their "Original Work"?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Sugar [mailto:dyfet-at-ostel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:00 PM
To: Rene Ferrer; hangout-at-nylxs.com
Subject: Re: [hangout] I sense a theme here...
Or the very irony...SCO's claims is that they can, using their own terms,
even
if innapropriate, "pirate" other companies copyrights. Consider the case of
their claim to ownership of both Numa, and JFS, both of which are
indipendently created works by other companies that do not derive from prior
existing Unix sources (Unix sources that SCO "may" be proven to be the legal
copyright holder for; there is some dispute on that issue as well). If we
take this argument they are expressing to it's logical conclusion, if one
writes an (original) application for (SCO held) Unix, the authors or
companies that do this will automatically loose their copyright to their own
work. Sounds viral to me. Hmm...if such a legal principle actually has any
merit at all, or their licensing can be interpreted in any manner as giving
them such a claim to the copyright of other's indipendently created work, we
should take the time to explain how it is that proprietary licensing, rather
than copyleft, really can be viral and dangerous and how it can cause one to
loose one's own copyrights.
On Monday 23 June 2003 08:07 am, Rene Ferrer wrote:
> I can't believe that SCO employees made these. I'm stunned. I have no
words
> to express my disappointment if this is real.
>
> RF
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because it's either fair use or useless....
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Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
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