Autre extrait intéressant :
Pourquoi il faut pinailler sur les licences : http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-May/004498.html(...)
> It's ludicrous to worry about legal threats from XFree86. Vendors are
> caught violating the GPL on a regular basis and face few legal threats other
> than perhaps a cease and desist. They might eventually abide by a cease
> and desist if someone is willing to spend enough money and effort to
> inconvenience them enough to make it worthwhile, but they never face any
> financial demands let alone pay damages.
Never? Come on! Are you even aware of the Caldera/SCO legal attack on Linux vendors? Caldera is a Linux distributer who we all thought supported the open source movement. Once they acquired SCO and thought they had a legal weapon, they sued IBM for 3ドル billion dollars! Then they turn around and sue Auto Zone, and DaimlerChrysler and are threatening everybody who distributes Linux. If the new XFree86 license infiltrated the whole industry and everybody ignored it, can you imagine what would happen if a dirty competitor was able to acquire The XFree86 Project, Inc. and most vendors were not in compliance with the license?
Not only that, you way under estimate the gravity of a cease and desist order in a case like this. X is a major component of all open operating systems and major commercial Unix's as well. It is not like having to stop distribution of some small application. If a company such as Microsoft acquired such a critical component, they could devastate the Unix and open source world. It could potentially run the Linux and BSD vendors completely out of business.
So you are saying to just ignore the license change and don't worry about legal threats? That is what is ludicrous! If there is no intention of ever enforcing this new license, then why change it in the first place? X has been extremely successful for a very long time under the original license. From what I have seen, most of the open source distributors agree with me.
[^] # Re: Comparaison licence Apache et XFree86 1.1
Posté par 007 . En réponse à la dépêche XFree86 a de moins en moins la côte. Évalué à 7.
Pourquoi il faut pinailler sur les licences :
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-May/004498.html(...)
> It's ludicrous to worry about legal threats from XFree86. Vendors are
> caught violating the GPL on a regular basis and face few legal threats other
> than perhaps a cease and desist. They might eventually abide by a cease
> and desist if someone is willing to spend enough money and effort to
> inconvenience them enough to make it worthwhile, but they never face any
> financial demands let alone pay damages.
Never? Come on! Are you even aware of the Caldera/SCO legal attack on Linux vendors? Caldera is a Linux distributer who we all thought supported the open source movement. Once they acquired SCO and thought they had a legal weapon, they sued IBM for 3ドル billion dollars! Then they turn around and sue Auto Zone, and DaimlerChrysler and are threatening everybody who distributes Linux. If the new XFree86 license infiltrated the whole industry and everybody ignored it, can you imagine what would happen if a dirty competitor was able to acquire The XFree86 Project, Inc. and most vendors were not in compliance with the license?
Not only that, you way under estimate the gravity of a cease and desist order in a case like this. X is a major component of all open operating systems and major commercial Unix's as well. It is not like having to stop distribution of some small application. If a company such as Microsoft acquired such a critical component, they could devastate the Unix and open source world. It could potentially run the Linux and BSD vendors completely out of business.
So you are saying to just ignore the license change and don't worry about legal threats? That is what is ludicrous! If there is no intention of ever enforcing this new license, then why change it in the first place? X has been extremely successful for a very long time under the original license. From what I have seen, most of the open source distributors agree with me.