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Re: Licensing, was elvis package



Shaya Potter <spotter@kby.netmedia.net.il> wrote:
> >> As an aside, I am beggining to think that we need a better license,
> >> from a legal perspective, because with all the issues of shared
> >> libraries, "essential parts", and who knows what else, if someone
> >> would really try to challange the GPL in a court, I don't know if it
> >> would stand up.

At 04:14 PM 4/26/98 -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> >FUD.

Shaya Potter <spotter@kby.netmedia.net.il> wrote:
> Why is this FUD?

Only the courts get to decide what would stand up in court.  [And
then usually in a limited context.]

"Giving up on the GPL before it's been tested because you don't know if
it would stand up in court" is explicitly based on doubt, uncertainty
and/or fear.

-- 
Raul


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