Re: M$ licenses Unix
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:22:40AM -0500, John Hasler waxed eloquent and said:
> 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.
This piece on enforcing the GPL may cast some light:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html
Sometime back when I had occasion to have an email exchange with Bradley Kuhn,
the executive director of the FSF, he said though no case has come to court,
several have been settled before they came to that stage.
Sam
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