Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's outrageous. UWash was going to sue the FSF for infringment of an > BSD-style license when it's plainly obvious that no infringement was > taking place?
No, they argued that there was infringement. > Oh, I remember this. The sophists at UWash claim that: > > "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of > Washington is hereby granted," > > does not mean that you can modify and then distribute. Unfortunately, it turns out that the UWash lawyers were right about the way these clauses are understood by the courts; it sucks, but there it is. They didn't create the distinction, they just decided to use it.
