[Consortium] Linuxaudio.org Management Board

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yeah, actually Jan, you're right. i dont see the need for such a clause 
either, because the law will cover you regardless of whether you use the 
GPL or a regular copyright. the GPL was very cleverly built on top of 
copyright law and is legally binding - i believe the MySQL case tested 
it in court too.

patents are a different matter, i'm not sure we can preclude the 
possibility that people might patent something, except that you'd have 
to be on the lookout for a member with $25000 to spare. i believe thats 
what it costs to register a patent?....

hth

m~

Jan Depner wrote:

>	I agree that many organizations can't/won't sign up to that
>restriction.  I would think that we're probably only talking about
>copyright infringement (including GPL issues), and patent infringement. 
>Copyright infringement shouldn't be an issue for a company using
>proprietary code since we won't be seeing it anyway so we won't be
>copying it.  GPLed code could be used by a company that doesn't disclose
>the source but, again, how would we know?  The only real problem I can
>see arising would be submarine patents.  Those of us developing Open
>Source code probably won't be filing patents ;-)  Are these the only
>issues or am I missing something?
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>Jan
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>On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:36, jaromil wrote:
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>>On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:41PM +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
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>>>>"Members of the Linuxaudio.org consortium agree not to sue other
>>>>members, or otherwise instigate prosecutions of members, following a
>>>>dispute over reverse engineering."
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>>>Two comments as input for your discussion:
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>>>1. Currently nothing prevents a member to leave the consortium to be
>>>able sue a (former) member. If a significant amount of money is
>>>involved this could happen. In practice this clause therefore does not
>>>seem to have a binding effect.
>>>
>>>2. It is very unlikely that any company lawyer (that is: big
>>>companies) would agree to such a condition.
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>>yes ok, but if we cannot even agree to not sue each other, why to be
>>part of a consortium anyway? :))
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>>- -- 
>> jaromil,  dyne.org rasta coder,  http://rastasoft.org
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