On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:43:13PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:03:18PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> > Lawsuits are not intrinsically bad for free software. Prohibiting > >> > lawsuits is significantly limiting and imposes real, significant > >> > costs. > >> > >> It's fairly obvious that a requirement that you not sue the licensor > >> doesn't impose any costs on you. > > > > This is fairly obviously wrong. It grants the licensor a carte blanche > > license to do anything they like > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > No, to infringe your bogus software patent. Which can trivially be twisted to smite any lawsuit you care to bring, thereby granting them a de facto carte blanche license to do anything they like. We've been over this already. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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