Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.

From: John Bradford (john_at_grabjohn.com)
Date: 07/25/03

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    Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:24 +0100
To: kilobug@freesurf.fr, lm@work.bitmover.com

    > >> Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for
    > >> whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to
    > >> get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK...
    >
    > > Oh, I see, you violate our license, your license is revoked, and
    > > now you have the write to reverse engineer BK? Show me the law which
    > > says that is true.
    >
    > I was working on a project during my free time using BK, and then I
    > get employed by a company contributing to Subversion. My license is
    > then void, but I want to be able to still use the files and servers I
    > used before. Reverse is allowed, and moral, in this case.

    What if a patent is discovered which is owned by somebody other than
    Larry, which covers something in BK? If nobody is allowed to use BK,
    how would we get the data out?

    John.
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