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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion |
Date: | Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:04:31 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) |
"The answer, I suspect, is that the Free Software Foundation is not accepting compliance with the GPL as a solution. It wants more. It wants to push Cisco around and it wants money. Here's how it thinks it can do that." The Software Lawyer
If the only consequence of being caught out of compliance is to comply, then no one will be careful to properly comply from the start. Imagine if the only penalty for theft was to return the stolen items. Shortly before he misspells "loses" as "looses", he also says "It makes no sense to say that the license terminates with respect to one licensee or another when the code remains available to everyone under the same broad license." I rather imagine that it makes no sense in pretty much the same way that it makes no sense that I can't keep driving the car I stole from the parking lot when all around me are people driving their own cars.
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