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Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe



Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> So you are basically saying that aiding or hinting the end-user to
>> create these would-be derivative works is enough to be violating the
>> license?
>
> That's overstated. It's enough to have to argue the point in court and
> be unsure of the result, which is bad enough that we can't really go
> there.
>
>> Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal?
>
> They aren't with any degree of certainty.

It's certain enough that Microsoft have failed to shut them down.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com



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