Re: M$ licenses Unix

To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: M$ licenses Unix
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:22:40 -0500
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20030521125741.GB9498@nitpicking.com> (Carl Fink's message of "Wed, 21 May 2003 08:57:41 -0400")
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Carl Fink writes:
> Mockery aside, as far as I know the GPL has never been tested in court.

Neither have most other licenses, including most proprietary ones.  The
fact that the GPL has never been "tested in court" despite having been
widely used for a long time implies that many lawyers have considered
trying to break it and concluded that they probably would fail.  Seems to
me that this unspoken consensus is a strong endorsement of the
enforceability of the GPL by a substantial body of copyright experts.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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