Re: [cobalt-users] Fwd: Re: OSRCD License Agreement

["SteelHead" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sounds similar in result to my response the other day.

Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Fwd: Re: OSRCD License Agreement


> Well, this lawyer is a very good friend  ... my first comment, I hate
> lawyers. As one of my other friends (yes, I have 2) calls them *lieyers*.
> But this lawyer is a truly good guy, even if his answer does suck (for all
> of us).  I think Sun should pay Gerald a lot of money to create them a
> usable system :)
>
> But here is what my free legal advice reported back to me tonight (he
> doesn't totally understand the whole open source thing of Linux, so don't
> take all his comments completely literally):
>
> >Well, you're right; it doesn't look good.  At least on its face, the
license
> >prohibits any modification of any kind.  Whatever Cobalt may be doing
with
> >Redhat Linux, it's probably by agreement between those two parties.  Even
if
> >it's not, and Cobalt is itself violating Redhat's license, your friend is
> >probably not thereby outside the provisions of the Cobalt license.  As to
> >your suggestion of having Gerald do his magic, I can't tell you that it
> >wouldn't violate the license, because it would.  Whether Cobalt would
care
> >is a separate question.  You might start talks with Cobalt to see if
they'll
> >grant Gerald a separate license to do his thing.
>
> Jale
>
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