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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   Contact copyright holder
Date:   2003-07-31 08:46:52
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Contact copyright holder

yeah, that's the ticket! The owner can threaten legal action! And a threat is alll you have because any real attempt to put the GPL in front of a judge would be disterous.


Where ya gonna get the money to hire a lawyer? What lawyer would be foolish enough to take the case? The GPL is a joke - people on this forum and on slashdot and elsewhere cannot even agree on what the license say, and it's written in plain english! One poster described it as a freshman high school philosophical diatribe. The first time this gets in front of a judge the whole house of cards that is the GPL license will come crashing down.
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  • Contact copyright holder
    2003-07-31 10:37:13  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Yeah, that IS the ticket. That is precisely what people and companies do when there is a dispute. It's why we have laws and licenses and legal process.

    People in the same organization disagree on what licenses say on many things. GPL is no exception. People in GPL are just more open to discuss it on public forums than in private meeting rooms. What's your point?

    "The whole house of cards that is the GPL license will come crashing down." - That's quite a poetic prophecy. Tell me, do you charge by the hour or can I hire you for the whole day on my nephews birthday next week?
  • Contact copyright holder
    2003-07-31 08:55:51  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    If that's the only way you can go to bed at night and sleep soundly, then more power to you. Don't worry about the fact that you're very, very wrong.

    The GPL has been brought up in only a couple court cases, and one in particular (MySQL vs. whoever, can't remember). In all instances the judge in the case never, ever questioned the legality of the GPL document itself, the train of thought in the court room went straight to "are they complying?"
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