[NCLUG] NCLUG Meeting Minutes
Larry Butler
larry_butler at hp.com
Wed Jul 17 10:46:48 MDT 2002
You caught us! It's part of the legal department's plot to keep their jobs:
Trick people into "stealing" code.
Well, I can promise you it's not the case that a disgruntled employee just
slapped an LGLP notice on it.
But, then again how do you know that I'm not just a disgruntled employee?
I guess you'll never know fo sure.
Larry
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:39 am, marciot wrote:
> >It was, but now it's not. I don't know what happened or why.
>
> Strange. I downloaded the source files and they all carry
> Hewlett-Packard's copyright on it, along with a LGPL notice.
>
> How do you confirm the legality on something like this? Perhaps
> some disgruntled employee slapped a LGPL notice on the source and
> released it to the public?
>
> >Personally, I'd love to see some real world proof that this thing is for
> real.
>
> Well, the source code is there. Whether it is legal or not is another story.
> I hope we don't end up with another legal mess, like DeCCS.
>
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
>
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