On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which > technically does not permit redistribution. At least 53 blobs have this > problem. Many of them are licensed under the GPL, but without source code > provided. Since the GPL only grants permission to distribute if you > provide source code, the GPL grants no permission to distribute in these > cases. Many people disagree with this interpretation. > Oddly enough nobody has proposed a GR addressing this, and Debian continues > to ship 47 improperly licensed files in linux-2.6. If I were SCO, I'd buy > up the copyrights to them from the original companies, and then I'd have a > real case for a lawsuit. Not really. What effects do you think a lawsuit about this would have? -- ciao, Marco
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