[Cryptography] Intel's $10-100 billion Minix copyright problem

Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamilton at acm.org
Sun Dec 10 20:19:25 EST 2017


<http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=howtocontribute#minix_license> 

Seems to be the typical warning.  It is always interesting to determine whether a BSD licensor satisfies the notice requirements themselves.  Lacking that, it all gets pretty murky.

However, a closed-source adopter needs to get their hands on an actual, authentic license statement, perhaps off of the code repository or a CD-ROM.

Concerning penalties, and whether a court would consider the perpetuation of notice subject to the same penalties as an infringement of an unlicensed work, is probably not worthwhile to speculate. These situations are not adjudicated by robots. 

It is also not clear that the Minix contributors have done what is necessary to be eligible for much in the way of statutory damages.  That contributor license agreements have not been obtained is a barrier too.

I would think that Intel could agree to provide the necessary attribution and settle in a reasonable manner, provided that it can be determined who to settle with 😊.

 - Dennis
 
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Minix 3 License = 404 Not Found

http://www.minix3.org/license.html
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