On Friday, 18 August 2017 4:30:05 AM AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote:
> Quoting [email protected] ([email protected]):
> > Oracle has not chosen to persue any action against Canonical.
> 
> More to the point, so far, so have the Linux kernel coders.  But the
> copyright violation is real, and Canonical risk either set of
> stakeholders filing and getting them severely sanctioned and that
> practice terminated at any time.

What rights do the Linux kernel coders have in this regard?

> > In any case it's not a problem for people who use Ubuntu.
> 
> I personally don't like dealing with companies that indulge shady
> business practices that violate the ethics of the open source community,
> and this isn't the first time Canonical have done so.  Moreover, I
> personally eschew dealings with firms inclined to make potentially fatal
> legal mistakes.
> 
> As to customer legal liability, probably as you say, but I wouldn't rule
> that out.  https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contributory_infringement

If you knowingly infringe then that's the case.  If you believe that Canonical 
and Oracle have sorted things out then you are clear.

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