# anyone ever gotten xerox to clarify the MOO licensebefore?

Roger Crew (rfc@microsoft.com)
Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:20:58 PST

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    > It would seem to me that since the MOO code is a derivitive work
    > based on a previous work by Stephen White, aka ghond, that if he
    > were to GPL the original work, then that would solve the whole
    >> problem for once and for all:

    Keep in mind that the GPL has, to my knowledge, never actually been
    tested in court.

    I don't doubt that Stallman and the FSF lawyers did their homework and
    worked to craft something that has a good chance of standing up.
    However, the fact remains that it's a sufficiently radical/novel use of
    copyright law that there's no guarantee that the conditions it imposes
    are enforceable; the wrong judge could easily rule otherwise.