[Info-vax] [Attn: HP Employees] PDP-11 OS hobbyist licensing

[JF Mezei]

On 13-10-01 15:47, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> And if they did he could find himself liable for millions of dollars in
> fines and damages and possible jail time.

HP would get so much bad PR from that, and the legal costs would be very
high for a product HP didn't even know it had and which generates 0
revenues at HP.

If the group/company had sent letters to HP requesting permission to
make the source public and HP did not respond, wouldn't that signal that
HP was not asserting ownership of the product and implicitely agreeing
to it being public domain ?