From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software (was: air traffic control software) Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <37209ca6.1133249@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470026943 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fjucn$k4p$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <7fkl3v$1e2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fl5ac$9sh$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fl9q5$ab7@drn.newsguy.com> <7foo6s$qbm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 924884240 206.170.24.59 (Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:17:20 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:17:20 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >Because on a previous project which required source >delivery, the contractor had done just that (delivered >LALR parsing tables without the tool that built them!) Presumably that kind of nonsense could be settled in court, with expert testimony as to what constitutes "source". (The courts being supposed to require some credibility of the "expert witnesses" nowadays.)