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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: softwarecombinations paper again Re: LGPL vs. GPL |
Date: | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:40:12 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
I did. It's drivel. Next. [Well, I skimmed it, but it was quickly obvious that
> a skim is all it deserved.] Mostly, it says that if someone wants to fight the restrictions of the GPL while continuing to distribute software containing code licensed by it, there are a number of ways to do so, and it's going to take a court to sort it all out and it could go either way. It mentions the first-sale workaround too. I don't see why it would be considered "drivel". I expect that the GPL would fare pretty well in court these days, because on its side it has the enormous success of Linux and the various vendors who are happily distributing GPLed code and making money, but you never know.
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