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Re: SFLC chooses wrong court
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra |
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Re: SFLC chooses wrong court |
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Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:57:58 +0100 |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:24:42PM +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Next, the exact language of Monsoon Multimedia's "admission" isn't quite
> that colorful.
For you maybe...
> "SAN MATEO, Calif. September 21, 2007 Monsoon Multimedia today
> announced efforts to fully comply with the GNU General Public License
> (GPL). Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve
> the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software
> license requirements. Monsoon will make modified BusyBox source code
> publicly available on the company web-site at www.myhava.com in the
> coming weeks.
>
> "Since we intend to and always intended to comply with all open
> source software license requirements, we are confident that the
> matter will be quickly resolved, said Graham Radstone, Chairman and
> Chief Operating Officer at Monsoon Multimedia."
>
> IOW, they're ready to comply with contractual covenant regarding
> making BusyBox code available. Compliance with a contract is almost
> always voluntary -- if you choose not to comply, then you don't have
> to. You merely have to compensate the non-breaching party for his
> expectancy interest.
I see no "contract" except for your words, they speak of "license requirements"
which imply copyright violation.
Rui
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