The trouble with OpenBTS

Posted Feb 27, 2009 1:03 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

IANAL, but they can still use internet FTP sites, FTP to E-mail converter, or even snail mail CDs to anybody... that is compatible with GPL

I've never seen the definition of web site come up, but I can tell you law is generally not technical like that, and I doubt a judge would consider "web site" to refer to the HTTP RFC or Port 80 or whatever. He would probably say it means things you access via web browsers, which is a very common way to access an FTP site. Snail mail would be covered if you ordered it via a web page.

As an example of the non-technical definitions courts sometimes use, last year a judge found that "megabyte" meant 2**20 in some Seagate capacity claims, even though there's a technical specification that says it means 10**6. (Ergo buyers of the drives didn't get all the space they bargained for).