Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ClearSight/GPL update (fwd)

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 15:40:29 +1000
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Erwin Rol wrote:
| On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 19:14, Olivier Biot wrote:
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|>See for example the Dutch issue of Telecom Magazine -- sorry, I don't
|>have it at hand anymore and I'm not going to translate the article...
|>for now :)
|>(http://www.telecommagazine.nl/)
|
|
| I couldn't find the article, but the headline already makes it sound
| like pure FUD. The typical "you can not sue anybody over GPL software"
| BS, probably not worth the trouble translating.

I have been running into the "if there is no-one to sue then you can not
run that software here" mentality for years.

On the other hand, I've never seen them sue someone for non-operational
software. Suing seems unlikely since most disclaimers say they do not
guaranetee the software do do anything beyond using up your disk space.

- --
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
~                -- Dr. Who
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