At 23:32 02/01/2001 -0800, Daniel Veditz wrote:
>"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
> >
><delenda est>
> >
> > Ok, I seem to remember that being the perception, but at this distance
> > perception is a dull instrument.
> >
> > Simon
>
>Anyone with a little foresight could see that it would take only one MPL
>file contributed by a non-cooperative owner to make the V.3 rights
>essentially meaningless--every such file would have to be re-implemented
>(probably in a clean-room) to exercise the V.3 rights on the rest of the
>codebase. Perhaps you remember us hackers agreeing that V.3 was of little
>practical concern, but the clause was important to the suits :-)
Also known as 'arse covering' :-)
Simon
>-Dan Veditz
