[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 16:27:55 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 17:21 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 23:09 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > I discussed this last year with you, and others.  By us talking 
> > > about this in a setting like this, we open ourselves up to being 
> > > part of any lawsuits that are discussed.  That's _really_
> > > dangerous
> > 
> > Is it? What if a person actually wouldn't mind to participate
> > because 
> > he actually believes in what the lawsuit is trying to achieve, and 
> > would be happy to provide his testimony in a lawsuit if need be?
> 
> Even if it's VMware compelling you as witness for their case?

It's a good thing that the German court system
does not have a discovery process, unlike US
courts.


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