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From: | RJack |
Subject: | Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:58:36 -0000 |
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On 8/9/2010 4:15 PM, Hyman Rosen wrote:
On 8/9/2010 4:03 PM, RJack wrote:It is the party accused of copyright infringement who will claim the GPL is unenforceable by the owner of the copyright. The party accused will claim promissory estoppel and effortlessly win.There is no promissory estoppel, since the GPL clearly spells out the conditions under which copying and distribution is permitted. Only cranks and thieves can claim that they may avail themselves of the permissions while ignoring the restrictions. That is not even to mention that none of the parties sued by the SFLC have "effortlessly won" or won at all.
"See Mother & Father v. Cassidy, 338 F.3d 704, 708 (7th Cir. 2003) (dismissal under Rule 41(a)(2), with prejudice, after a plaintiff gives up makes the defendant the prevailing party)";
Instead, in every case which has ended, the defendants have made the GPLed sources properly available.
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