Embedding Bazaar into C/C++ applications

[Russel Winder]

Stephen,

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:20 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
[ . . . ]
> So even if Larry is right, a lawsuit by a copyright owner won't get
> thrown out of court, and that is the real issue: will the owner of the
> code I'm linking to sue?  The FSF will.  You will pay court costs, and
> pay a lot of money even if you win the court case.  A countersuit to
> recover court costs will fail.  But for other entities, maybe not.
> Canonical will probably threaten to sue and offer you a license that
> costs less than the lawsuit.

Many people associate this practice of offering a licence at a lower
cost than the anticipated cost of a threatened court case with the crime
of extortion, or at the very least demanding money with menaces.  I
would hope that Canonical would not get into this sort of behaviour,
even though organizations such as .* and .* are well known for trying
it.  Sadly where this trick is practiced by large companies, there are
rarely criminal prosecutions, whereas when it is practiced by
individuals there are often criminal prosecutions.   The inference is
fairly clear.

However this is probably off topic for this list.

[ . . . ]

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Russel.
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