Re: Sharing the GPL source code, with value addition by vendor specifictohis hardware?

[Alexander Terekhov]

RJack wrote:
> 
> On 10/13/2010 9:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Hyman Rosen<hyrosen@mail.com>  writes:
> >
> >> On 10/13/2010 8:17 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> >>> Hey Hyman how is the progress to get the source code for a
> >>> refurbished Insignia player you so badly needed some time ago,
> >>> silly?
> >>>
> >>> <chuckles>
> >>
> >> Nothing yet. This is, of course, why the SFLC is still pressing
> >> its suit against Insignia. If it gets to trial, Insignia will be in
> >> the rather odd position of having promised to comply with the GPL
> >> in its manual. Sounds like promissory estoppel to me.
> >
> > Promissory estoppel is a defense, not a complaint.
> >
> 
> Really?
> 
> Google <"promissory estoppel is a cause of action">.

Poor dak should go directly to

http://everything2.com/title/gratuitous+promise

"In the case of promissory estoppel, the party trying to weasel out of
an agreement is "estopped" from asserting any of the usual defenses to a
contract: no agreement in writing, lack of consideration, that sort of
thing.

The theory of promissory estoppel provides:

A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action
or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which
does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be
avoided only by enforcement of the promise.

Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 90(1) (1981)

Note well: the promise has to be something it would be reasonable to
expect people to rely on: you can't be legally bound to a promise made
jokingly. "

regards,
alexander.

"Plaintiff Erik Andersen is a work-from-home father who has gifted 
to the world software underlying a significant body of consumer
electronics." ROFL
                     -- SFLC crooks Ravicher, Williamson, Spiegel
                
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