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Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)



On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:51:29PM +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > And, as an aside, in civil law at least, the court has full power as to how to qualify an
> > act -- say it is a contract, or license, or whatever -- but is bound by the parties intent
> > of the act's intended effects, in the limit of what the law allows.

> Oh yeah. As if FSF.org might sue me in my home EU court alleging GPL
> violation regarding linking... Dream on. They have no balls. But just
> in case... per Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual
> obligations, I'll simply trigger straight-away US doctrine of
> copyright misuse (licensor's home law).

....

WTF?

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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