Well, since they are removing all of this code from Cendio in order to implement Microsoft's RDP specifications, I don't think anybody would agree about the seeing and using part.
Marc seemed to be saying that they needed to remove all that code to implement the Microsoft RDP spec so they are not basing anything on the Cendio code. Just from a legal perspective, courts are not interpreting things to a minute level of strictness. They do grant new codebases some latitude. Linux would not even exist if this were not the case. Cendio made an infringement claim against FreeRDP. So you earlier stated that the Cendio commits started into the rdesktop project codebase on 2002-07-18. I just verified this and that is the very first Cendio commit that I can find in the rdesktop codebase. So if FreeRDP were to do any entire rebaseline starting prior to 2002-07-18 that makes it free of the influence of the Cendio commits to rdesktop. So if they were to undertake such an effort does that satisfy Cendio that FreeRDP is not deriving from Cendio's work? Gerry On 06/30/2011 11:06 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: >> Peter, >> I've been sitting here watching this discussion for a bit. >> So what is it that you are saying? >> >> Are you saying that FreeRDP has to go back all the way to before >> this 2002.07.18 date in the rdesktop repo to start as their baseline in >> order that they have not derived from you or Cendio's work? > > As Andreas Kotes points out, some people might argue that not even > that is sufficient, since the FreeRDP developers have already seen & > used the code to some extent. > > Rgds, --- > Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer > Cendio AB http://www.cendio.com > Wallenbergs gata 4 > 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
