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Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++ |
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:13:14 +0100 |
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RJack <user@example.net> writes:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
>> The FSF has decided that this is where it wants to draw the boundary
>> for giving permission to combine GPLed software in a collective work
>> without requiring that the rest of the collective work be bound by
>> the GPL.
>
> This has got to be one of the dumbest threads I've read in quite a
> while. No a single word of any lawsuit filed by the SFLC has ever. in
> the total history of the SFLC, been perused by the eyes of a U.S.
> federal court judge. Ignore the GPL and code as you please. Should the
> SFLC file suit against you, simply file an *Answer to Complaint* with
> a blanket denial of all allegations. Filing this *Answer to Complaint*
> prevents a default judgment and places the burden on the SFLC to move
> forward with their suit. In order to move forward the GPL would
> necessarily have to be interpreted by the court.
Not at all. This "Answer of Complaint" has to include one detail:
whether the defendant has chosen to avail himself of the GPL as a
license or not. If he says "not", the GPL is not an issue in the case.
And the defendant has a lousy stance explaining what he is doing with
the software in the first case.
If he says "yes, I use the GPL", he has a lousy stance explaining what
he is doing ignoring the terms of the license.
There is a reason most cases go into settlement.
> The SFLC will NEVER, NEVER allow this to happen --
The defendants have a hard time to "allow this to happen" since that
means that they have agreed with the GPL's terms.
> they might be charged with involuntary manslaughter if the judge died
> from laughing too hard before he managed to stuff the GPL in the
> little round file bin.
You are a bitter old man.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, (continued)
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, RJack, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, David Kastrup, 2010/02/08
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/05
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/05
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, RJack, 2010/02/03
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, David Kastrup, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, David Kastrup, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/04
- Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/04