Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

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> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Please consider that in the Oracle vs Google case, Oracle ended up with
>> 9-line copying (plus a few test files), and the judge decided that *as*
>> *a* *matter* *of* *law* copyright infringement had occurred for those 9
>> lines.
>
> Yes. And also told Oracle that it was very limited what they could
> claim as damage caused by the copyright infringement over those 9
> lines.

He told them they could claim 150000$ for those IIRC. That's pocket change
for Oracle and Google but not for your average free software project.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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