[plug] no more lawsuits disclaimer idea.

[Shayne O'Neill]

(cc'd to rms. I wonder what he thinks)

I wonder if people could insert a line like this;-

"By distributing this product, you have agreed any pending legal suits you
have against the distribution or use of GPL'ed products against the
author or any third party are automatically resolved in the author or the
third parties favor. This does not apply to lawsuits designed to enforce
the GPL, but does apply to lawsuits to enforce other copyrights or
patents."

..in there free software licences for stuff they wrote. Would it violate
there GPL? Would the "FSF can upgrade your licence clause to V3" clause be
invoked to add this line in current GPL products by the FSF.

:)

Think about it :) SCO does infact still distribute the linux kernel, and
various kit from GNU operating environments. Imagine if that baby got
auto-upgraded in the licence. :)

--
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."
-- George Bush on CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000
RIAA Copyright notice trap: http://guild.murdoch.edu.au/~shayne/

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Craig Foster wrote:

> Thought I'd read through some propaganda again... (for laughs)
>
> And this appeared (http://www.sco.com/5reasons/)
>
> "The 'Legend' edition of SCO UNIX, which is targeted at SMB customers, will
> be refitted with SCOx Web services support, an XML parser and SOAP toolkit,
> an OpenLDAP directory, better multithreading, open-source tools Tomcat, PHP
> and Mozilla, enhanced J2EE support and enhanced security with support for
> IPsec, VPN and PAN capabilities."
>
> Translation:-
>
> "We'll still be reaping the GPL pool for our purposes, but you can't have
> anything of ours..."
>
> ^_^
>
> CraigF.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au
> > [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of garry
> > Sent: Monday, 29 November 2004 8:37 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: [plug] Sco again
> >
> > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/29/028207
> >
> > They fixed this one... 8^)==
> >
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