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Project Harmony decloaks

Project Harmony decloaks

Posted Apr 12, 2011 16:22 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Project Harmony decloaks by pboddie
Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks

Jeff Merkey spent some time trying to find someone with copyright over some portion of the kernel who would sell their copyright to him. The implication was that he planned to claim that the kernel was a joint work (rather than a collective one) and that he would then use his rights to sell proprietary licenses to the kernel to anyone who didn't want to follow the GPL.


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