[openbeos] Re: Sunday amusement
- From: "Erik Jakowatz" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:35:44 -0800
>> Appending the previous e-mail. I have asked my lawyer friend
regarding
>> derivative work and that the implementation is original. The
question lies
>> where does the copyright end (plus enforcement).
>>
>> Does anyone know of other open source effort that has taken the
closed
>> source, un-modified, header files as the basis of its new
implementation?
>
>Whay not worry about this if it arises.
>If Palm really gave a rat they would have posted a
>cease and decist notice at BeUnited months ago.
>Palm doesn't care about BeOS or OBOS.
>Even if they did it would be rather bad PR for
>them, in the geek world, to start getting heavy handed
>over things that they have already stated they don't care about.
I'm thinking it would be useful for the BeUnited folks to pursue Palm's
"blessing" of our efforts, rather than undertaking another effort to get
them to license the code. Then we could proceed free of any worries of
this sort.
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