>I think the other point was that at the time of this code being widely
>absorbed into the commercial codebase there was a general
>misunderstanding of the intention of the 'free software'. At the time of
>the absorbtion of the code I don't think the DECISION was as widely
>understood as it is now becoming more clear. You only need to consider
>the complexity of the debate on this list to forgive early adoptors of
>these cleverly written licenses that the impact of their DECISION to
>adopt such code has had unexpected and poorly understood consequences. I
>mean sure it was written into the license 'agreement' but so were the
>words FREE! Only now these licenses are starting to be tested in court
>is the actual DECISION being clarified and retrospectively it is having
>distruptive consquences.. Sounds like all the hallmarks of a trogan
>horse in addition to that of a virus.. A very clever strategy indeed.

What a load of b*******. What you really mean is that someone out-lawyered
the lawyers, and the lawyers were not even aware of it. The disruptive
consequences are happening because the lawyers did not think about the
possible later consequences of the legal status of what was being included
in commercial software. There is nothing Trojan Horse about it. If the
lawyers had read the small print properly at the time of inclusion of the
software, then there would not be problems now with law suits.

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