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Commitment to Open ?

Commitment to Open ?

Posted Mar 6, 2011 14:19 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Commitment to Open ? by jch
Parent article: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)

It expresses your opinion and belief better however a claim of license violation is a legal one and considering that Red Hat has a well qualified legal team that would have certainly reviewed the legal validity of such actions before Red Hat made them, I am inclined to trust their judgement instead of a layperson interpretation of it. In the case of a alleged infringement, whether or not one is willing to take it to court is certainly relevant and the absence of it, I consider such claims spurious ones.

I have no qualms about people arguing about the "spirit" of the license since that is open to interpretation and one doesn't need to be a copyright expert to do so.


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