Re: Warning to Debian Developers regarding BitKeeper
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:26:14PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > "Ignorance is not an excuse". The license says "the latest license can
> > be obtained from <url>". So they leave it to the licensee to keep up
> > with it.
>
> Legally that's exactly the case. Practically, unless it's a really big
> deal, I wouldn't expect a court to make you pay huge amounts or for you
> to even be litigated against by the licensor. As I see it, of course,
> and I'm no counsel.
So I could technically be in breach of the license, even though I
checked it yesterday, because they changed it one hour ago today?
There is a practical limit of how often we can check licenses for
changes...
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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