On Nov 30, 8:22 pm, smu johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well put.  However, I don't think Wei Dai will sue you since we both came to
> the same conclusion on the license,
Two ComSci guys....

> I also don't think you have to worry about someone other than
> Mr. Dai suing you if you break the license agreement, either...
To play devils advocate: suppose Wei transfers his rights.

> how screwed up the legal system might be, who would pay a lawyer on their
> behalf to press charges against a Crypto++ user?
Ah! Corporate America has all kinds of neat tricks that anyone can
use. Consider DCMA - the act has service providers and hosting
services playing digital cops (in return for the equivalent of a
dangling carrot - a.k.a. safe harbor). Corporate America got a great
ROI when it bribed members of Congress (err, made PAC contributions).

Jeff

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, the legislature, lawyers, and judges have the US legal
> > system fairly well fucked up. So I understand why these guys want want
> > an unambiguous definitions of the terms - its too damn expensive to
> > sort the mess.
>
> > Jeff

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