Chris Murphy squawked out on Wednesday 03-Oct-2012@11:22:46 > > On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:59 PM, LuKreme wrote: >> >> You would need to ask Apple’s lawyers. >> >> I suspect the issue revolves around patents of which Apple has many and CCC >> has none. > > That is a disappointing cop out. The last time you went down this road, and I > responded, you merely stopped the hand waiving. This is a regression from > saying nothing.
I’m not interested in having the discussion again. You have a position that is obviously at pods with Apple and Microsoft, who have teams of lawyers advising them. > You said GPLv3 was designed *specifically* to stop companies from including x > tools. Yes, that was said many times during the discussion on GPLv3, and it was designed to replace GPL2 for that specific reason. > It is your burden to explain this. Not mine. Not Apple's lawyers. You didn't > merely make the claim, you claimed *SPECIFICITY* of purpose. That's not even > something Apple's lawyers have done, or even would do. Apple’s lawyers have never, to my knowledge, said anything at all on the subject. What we know is that every GPLv3 project has been removed from OS X and Windows. > Beyond punting, you then assert Bombich has no IP stake even though their > license expressly claimed no CCC source code is to be made available, only > rsync original and modified source code is made available upon request. On > what basis do you assert Bombich has no IP claims? I never said anything even remotely like that. > No version of the GPL requires Apple to divulge or dissolve their patents, > unless directly incorporated into GPL code. That's something the BSD license > does not require: You can take the code, modify it, and not publish the > modifications, unlike the GPL. But that's the same for any version of the GPL. Obviously Apple disagrees with the effect of the GPL. Take it up with them. Microsoft has the exact same position. -- Clark's Law: Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice Clark Slaw: Anything that has been severely damaged or destroyed by application of Clark's Law _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
