Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:33:26 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Please consider that in the Oracle vs Google case, Oracle ended up with
> 9-line copying (plus a few test files), and the judge decided that *as*
> *a* *matter* *of* *law* copyright infringement had occurred for those 9
> lines.
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120510205659643#1119
> 
> That's what a very smart judge decided in a huge trial with some of the
> countries top lawyers involved.
> 
> I don't have any clear idea what is not substantial enough to qualify for
> copyright, but this very simple code did
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3940683

Do you think a few more verdicts like that will influence small FLOSS
projects? In that they will not apply proposed fixes "faster, faster, faster",

  http://www.i-programmer.info/news/193-android/4224-oracle-v-google-judge-is-a-programmer.html

but will spend a bit more time on creating the fixes/code changes themselves?

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