Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

[Hyman Rosen]

On 4/13/2010 4:51 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> > The GPL legally establishes a heterogenuos pool of software.
>
> Hey dak, how come that the FSF claimed in court that the GPL is NOT A
> POOLING LICENSE (and is merely "a vertical agreement between the
> licensee and the licensor of the underlying software" instead)?

Because the pool of software created is an effect of
widespread use of the GPL. The GPL itself, however,
is not a pooling license. There is a difference between
the stated properties of the license and the emergent
properties of the system which it engenders.