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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 15 2012 @ 09:36 AM EDT |
The key question is what "information and belief" they would
base such a suit on.
You can't* just sue someone and demand discovery because
it's POSSIBLE that somewhere in their code there's a snippet
of yours. You need some level of factual basis. It's
possible the fact that this suit might be considered
sufficient basis for people who actually have code in
"mount." It's less clear that someone who wrote other linux
code would have sufficient legal basis to not get thrown
out.
This is in many ways a Good Thing. Can you imagine if IBM
could sue every company who ever employed an ex-IBM'er
demanding to look through every line of their source code
just in case a snippet they consider their copyright might
happen to be in there?
You need some amount of concrete information sufficient to
form a reasonable belief that YOUR property is in there..
You can't* just go on a fishing expedition through someone
else's code, whether you like them or not.
* "can't" in this context should be taken to mean "according
to the law, they SHOULDN'T be considered to have enough of a
case to proceed." Whether a court would let them is,
tragically, up to the court...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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