On 4/9/2010 4:32 PM, RJack wrote:
Don't go to a real court Hyman. You'll find the court won't indulge
your denials anymore than the federal courts listened to the
Birther's claims of non-citizenship for Obama. ROFL.
According to this paper,
<http://www.fenwick.com/docstore/Publications/IP/IP_bulletins/IP_Bulletin_Fall_2006.pdf>
estoppel claims could in fact apply to GPL cases, but in the opposite
way than anti-GPL cranks hope. A distributor of code under the GPL
who asserts patent rights to prevent an invention embodied in the
code from being practiced could have estoppel claimed against him.
According to this paper, <http://www.sapnakumar.org/EnfGPL.pdf> the
GPL is not a contract.