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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 09:40 +0200, michael bode wrote:

> I imagine Linus Torvalds answering millions of requests if kernel
> x.y.z *really* is GPL or maybe something else because license notices
> in the sources "have no legal force". He will send you to hell.

What is "legal force"?

(I Can't speak for Linus.)

> So *if* one would believe the "no legal force" thing, the logical
> consequence is to use commercial shrink-wrap EULA software and avoid
> OSS at any cost.

Why should EULicenseA be different from GPLicense in this
regard?


-- Georg