| The conflict is actually the trademark registration. I do not think someone is attacking the GNU GPL itself. What might happen if Discordia LTD got the trademark, then the Shareaza project might be terminated or the current project team will have to pay legal fees for using registered trademark. Worst part is, even if the code is under GNU GPL, Discordia LTD may take over the whole project and refine the terms and license then make the project closed source.
As for the Microsoft anxiousness, I think no one is stupid enough to use their registered trademarks.
US laws that concern Intellectual Properties are a bit sketchy (always has been). It is actually great that we get to have the Free Software Foundation, but I think that at one point, FSF`s terms conflict with the US legal laws with regards IP ownership. |