Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On Feb 12, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Here is something about it, but nothing about Mattel getting it
> revoked:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35226,00.html
>
> And the [2] link above points to:
>
> http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/28/cyberpatrol.mirrors/
>
> Not 100% certain how the FreeBSD folks intepreted this as 'legally
> revoked the entire distribution ..." though, I'm not too sure ...

ok, now i have enough to google on. i did find the followup to the wired
article here, which indicates that the judge's actual ruling was vague
and confusing:

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35258,00.html

and the following which suggests that parts of cphack were
not properly noticed as GPL:

http://www.topgold.com/training/webcourse/handouts/eff/cphack.html

so on the whole, i think that the lessons to be drawn from the
case may not be those that the freebsd.org authors want you to take
from it.

richard
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