An Interview with Gregory Blepp (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw talks with Gregory Blepp about his relationship with SCO and 'millions of lines' of code purported to be in his possession. "I have interviewed Mr. Blepp, and he is telling me a different story, and much more. According to Mr. Blepp, he never was staff. He was a consultant for SCO from day one, and he still is, but he's spending much less time on SCO matters now. He has his own business. They announced his "appointment" as VP the way they did for legal reasons. Also, he says SCOSource, to his knowledge, has no full-time employees."

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An Interview with Gregory Blepp (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 21, 2004 7:13 UTC (Sat) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

I am struck by the pathos of this report and the recent Enderle keynote. Here are people who have a problem with the truth, whose own words condemn them. They know it, and they make lame attempts to save face. In the Blepp interview and the Enderle keynote, the emotional tone is one of ne'er-do-wells trying to explain themselves and not convincing anyone else.

Bruce

Transfer of copyright

Posted Aug 23, 2004 2:06 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

I really liked the bit where this guys says that they never transferred their copyrights in writing to the GPL. If I didn't understand the difference between licensing (and non-exclusive at that) and transfer of copyright to another legal entity (i.e. person or company), I would try to stay away from answering any such question and not repeat the nonsense my boss (Darl) told me.

Do these people *ever* check anything that's coming out of their mouths?

Transfer of copyright

Posted Aug 23, 2004 16:39 UTC (Mon) by mongre26 (guest, #4224) [Link]

The statement made by Blepp is a straw man fallacy.

GPL is a transfer of copyrights, copyright transfers must be in writing, we never signed away any copyrights, we can ignore the GPL.

Problem is that the first statement is false rendering any further conclusion false.

The GPL does not transfer copyright ownership. If I release a work under the GPL then it is my work, copyrighted by me, until such time as it passes into the public domain, if that ever occurs. The GPL allows anyone, including me to take the code, modify it (derivative works) and redistribute, without specific permission from the orignal copyright holder as long as I abide by the terms of the GPL. It is a license plain and simple.

I may transfer my copyright in writing to a person or a party, but that has nothing to do with the GPL.

Sorry Mr. Blepp, try again....

An Interview with Gregory Blepp (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 23, 2004 7:45 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

...and the backpedaling is kicking into high gear!

An Interview with Gregory Blepp (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 23, 2004 10:27 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Am I just plain stupid or did Blepp extrapolate 55 out of 200 lines to a total of 1.5 million lines of "stolen" code?! (I.e., 5000000*55/200)

Hilarious highlight: Who ever managed to stay in court for one year and a half without any reason?

An Interview with Gregory Blepp (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 23, 2004 11:57 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]

I can appreciate that the original was in German, and goodness knows my German isn't good enough to read it untranslated - but is it just me having great difficulty actually making sense of large tracts of the speech?