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I agree that many organizations can't/won't sign up to that

restriction.  I would think that we're probably only talking about

copyright infringement (including GPL issues), and patent infringement.

Copyright infringement shouldn't be an issue for a company using

proprietary code since we won't be seeing it anyway so we won't be

copying it.  GPLed code could be used by a company that doesn't disclose

the source but, again, how would we know?  The only real problem I can

see arising would be submarine patents.  Those of us developing Open

Source code probably won't be filing patents ;-)  Are these the only

issues or am I missing something?
Jan
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:36, jaromil wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:41PM +0100, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:

> > > "Members of the Linuxaudio.org consortium agree not to sue other

> > > members, or otherwise instigate prosecutions of members, following a

> > > dispute over reverse engineering."

> >

> > Two comments as input for your discussion:

> >

> > 1. Currently nothing prevents a member to leave the consortium to be

> > able sue a (former) member. If a significant amount of money is

> > involved this could happen. In practice this clause therefore does not

> > seem to have a binding effect.

> >

> > 2. It is very unlikely that any company lawyer (that is: big

> > companies) would agree to such a condition.

>

> yes ok, but if we cannot even agree to not sue each other, why to be

> part of a consortium anyway? :))

>

> - --

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