Rick Moen scripsit: > Out in the real world, we have to deal with shades of grey and lack > of perfect knowledge, which is why a wise person will not spend huge > amounts of time pondering whether you can get away with particular > types of deployments without having created an unauthorised derivative > work, but rather will be cautious and let someone else land in court.
Which is as much to say, the wise person will use proprietary software to the full extent he can afford it, because there is no issue of copyright licensure, there is indemnity de facto or ex contractu from patent lawsuits, etc. etc. This leads to a vast amount of wheel-reinvention, but overall that is cheaper than defending lawsuits. -- Note that nobody these days would clamor for fundamental laws John Cowan of *the theory of kangaroos*, showing why pseudo-kangaroos are [email protected] physically, logically, metaphysically impossible. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Kangaroos are wonderful, but not *that* wonderful. --Dan Dennett on zombies _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
