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Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco |
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Fri, 22 May 2009 08:58:22 +0200 |
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Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Rjack <user@example.net> writes:
>> The case was dismissed WITH PREJUDICE against the FSF.
>
> Wait a minute. Did the court dismiss it IN ALL CAPS!!!! Well that changes
> things.
>
> But seriously, "with prejudice" is a legal term with whatever range of
> meanings in the USA. I don't know all the range of meanings, and
> most/all people on this list don't know all the range of meanings, but
> we see from today's announcement that FSF was clearly in a very strong
> position. So, as nasty as "dismissed with prejudice" sounds, we now
> know that it's just a legal term, it seems it's legal meaning is
> actually quite tame.
It isn't tame. It means that the same suit cannot be brought again
given the same circumstances. Since Cisco and the FSF now have a
written agreement with regard to the GPL adhereance procedure, the
circumstances _are_ different. So the next time the FSF takes Cisco to
court for the same behavior, they need to make the non-heeding of this
agreement part of the suit and can't just restart from scratch.
Other than that, nothing has changed.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, (continued)
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, John Hasler, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/21
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, John Hasler, 2009/05/21
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Rjack, 2009/05/21
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- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, David Kastrup, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, David Kastrup, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/22
- Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, John Hasler, 2009/05/21
Re: Fw: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco, Rjack, 2009/05/20