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Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled |
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Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:43:53 +0100 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/22/2010 1:42 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>> What matters is that the terms and conditions in the GPL are legally
>>> valid, and have now been tested in an appeals court in the United States
>>> of America.
>
>> That was the Artistic License, not the GPL, but good enough.
>
> Ah, thanks! I thought there was something a little wrong. Still, if
> the artistic license holds up, the GPL'll be a doddle.
I don't see how that follows. They are licenses with a somewhat similar
basic legal mechanism (based on copyright, granting additional
permissions), but the actual license is quite different. So I see no
base for the "AFPL holds -> GPL doddle" claim. I see no qualitative
difference discussed that would support such a gradation.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, (continued)
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Hyman Rosen, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/22
- Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled, RJack, 2010/02/22