GPL - possible violation - what should I do?
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
rms at 1407.org
Wed Mar 20 18:17:33 UTC 2002
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 17:16, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> No, this isn't a joke.
Then it is out of this reality :)
> Antitrust law applies to anyone who is dominant on a market,
> where dominant="more than 40% marketshare" in Poland (It's not defined
> in US law). So in Poland Apache Group would be quite restricted in
> what they can do, because of their "dominant position on HTTP servers
> market". In particular it would be illegal to "restrict competition in
> other markets by abusing their dominant position on this market",
If the ASF changed the httpd to GPL, other companies either have to
compete with a derived version of the apache httpd they use, make their
derived work GPL, or turn to proprietary httpds.
It does not in anyway restrict competition. I think it even fosters
competition.
Hugs, rui
--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?
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