On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:48:52PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Nicolas Mailhot > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please consider that in the Oracle vs Google case, Oracle ended up with > > 9-line copying (plus a few test files), and the judge decided that *as* > > *a* *matter* *of* *law* copyright infringement had occurred for those 9 > > lines. > > Yes. And also told Oracle that it was very limited what they could > claim as damage caused by the copyright infringement over those 9 > lines. > > Yes, those 9 lines belong to you my precious butterfly. No, they are > not significant and this is all a waste of time.
But Google are not permitted to redistribute that code. If a work is relicensed without the assent of all copyright holders then the work is undistributable, no matter how small any damages might be. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
