Re: Fedora - DELL ?

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Alan Cox wrote:
That's a valid point, but in the US anyone can sue anyone else over just about anything and it's not over till the appeals are used up. How can you be sure that someone won't claim ownership of some obscure parts of Linux and sue over that - again?

You can't, but you can at least try not to ship anything which you know
someone else has rights over, which is after all triple damages for
knowingly offending. So I correct myself - if you have $3.6billion feel
free to ship a Fedora with MP3 support.


Everyone involved _thought_ they had rights to distribute the mp3 code covered in this suit. There's no way to be any more sure than that about any code, and Linux is certainly no exception with it's long-running unsettled litigation still going on. If SCO would happen to win, they'd then probably have a basis for going after other distributors with that 'knowingly offending' clause since their claims were asserted long ago.

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  Les Mikesell
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