Re: GPL Software Gold Standard

[Martin Dickopp]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Yet the GPL remains a dangerous defense for defenders of open source:
> the GPL is the basis for the open-source software industry,

The creators of the GPL are not interested in "open-source software".

> yet no court has ever ruled on the enforceability or interpretation
> of the agreement (one case relating to MySQL generated an opinion,
> but the court deferred interpretation of the GPL and the case
> settled).

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-13.html

> The language of the GPL is opaque and it has many ambiguities: it does
> not establish a governing law, the scope of "derivative works" that
> are governed by the GPL is unclear

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1544245

Martin