Yes, mistakes were made, but this particular mistake has been made literally hundreds if not thousands of times. The precedent is irrelevant. What's the point here, that accidentally overwriting the copyright header on a source file and hosting it on a public source repo you have to pay (raise pinky to mouth) 100 biiiiillion dollars?
A mistake was made. Google was notified. The mistake was fixed. If anyone involves a lawyer here, *THAT* would be setting a bad precedent. Now if google stuck to its guns and continued to host source code with their copyright header on it that was shamelessly ripped off, or they continued to sell something with foss in it without adhering to the license, then they should of course be sued and that legal action should be supported by foss-friendly parties. But that's clearly not at all what happened here! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
