Why?

[Alex Rousskov]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> I can answer it for the Lucent public license at least.
> ...
> to be most useful to the rest of the company, we need to let our
> code also be mixable with proprietary stuff in the company. We could
> do lots of bookkeeping to separate what we wrote from what others
> wrote and keep two versions ove everyting, or we could settle on
> copy-center and not bother.  We did the latter.

Thank you for a detailed explanation. As a followup question, do you
think Lucent can be sued for the code it does not own (such as public
domain code)?

You have listed reasons other than getting sued that would preclude
releasing the code into public domain, but I am curious whether a
public domain release sufficiently reduces a probability of a law
suit.

Thanks,

Alex.
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