Re: [tlug] Novel embraces Microsoft

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

stephen@example.com wrote:
> Keith Bawden writes:
>
>  > I'm not sure if writing a tool to pull some meta data is going out of
>  > ones way to "screw up the kernel development process".
>
> He was specifically warned by Bitmover and asked by Linus to cease and
> desist.  The consequences of continuing were known.  He was definitely
> violating the license under which he received the software.
>   

He didn't receive the software, he he was connecting using telnet to a
publically accessible Bitmover server[1].

>  > After all isn't the meta data also the property of the person who
>  > owns the data it is related to?
>   

It would seem to be a derivative work of the GPL'd source in the
repository ;)

Edward

1. http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/04/11/118211.shtml?tid=2&tid=25&tid=3