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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.185803.18482@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Feb 91 18:58:03 GMT
References: <27A6E9BA.2E94@tct.uucp> <1991Feb5.011604.3849@NCoast.ORG> <11311@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <11311@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
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| In article <1991Feb5.011604.3849@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| : A willing dupe with a greedy lawyer.  There've been some cases of ridiculous
| : suits making it into court because some larcenous lawsmith started seeing
| : green... and the company I work for can't afford some yip suing us because a
| : system we sell happens to include some Perl scripts and the yip thinks he can
| : sue us into giving him the whole system for free courtesy of the GPV.
| 
| Perl scripts are very explicitly disclaimed in the README file for Perl,
| so this would be a frivolous lawsuit.  You could very likely countersue
| for punitive damages.
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You know that, I know that, but the shoestrings just got pulled even tighter
at Telotech and we'd be hard put to respond to such frivolous lawsuit without
getting into serious financial trouble right off the bat.  Besides, while the
*scripts* are disclaimed, I can see some overambitious lawyer claiming that
the fact that Perl is shipped with the system is grounds for the system being
free --- again, frivolous, but still pushing the boundaries.

++Brandon
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