Re: Dangerous back door in the LGPL
Matt Seitz <[email protected]>
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--- Francois Gouget <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Matt Seitz wrote: > > True, but I assume if Microsoft went to the trouble of buying the FSF, > issuing > > an LGPL 3, and creating an MS-WINE version, then they would not be stupid > > enough to leave such an obvious back door. They would almost certainly > ammend > > COPYING.LIB so that the distribution terms for MS-WINE would be LGPL 3 > only. > > But they cannot do that. If they could, they could also edit it right > now to put any license they want. They cannot do that today, because Microsoft is not the FSF. But if Microsoft controlled the FSF, then they could. > The only way to legally modify COPYING.LIB is with the agreement of all > the copyright holders. No, the only way to legally copy COPYING.LIB (or a work derived from COPYING.LIB) is with the agreement of all copyright holders. Microsoft could simply replace COPYING.LIB with their own license stateme ===== Sincerely, Matt Seitz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com