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: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software (was: air traffic control software) Date: 1999/04/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470312387 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> <37209ca6.1133249@news.pacbell.net> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de 924943953 1230 192.168.0.1 (24 Apr 1999 08:52:33 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Apr 1999 08:52:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-24T08:52:33+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) writes: > 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.) Perhaps. But we do not know yet whether the GPL will hold up in court anyway.