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Limited commercial use?

Posted Oct 2, 2004 18:11 UTC (Sat) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
Parent article: A ruling in the bnetd DMCA case

I'm shocked that a judge could say that Free software has limited
commercial purpose, and is thus copyright infringement. If this ruling is
upheld, this could be a bad precedent for OpenOffice or any other program
that duplicates functionality of a commercial product.

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