Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 4/13/2010 9:20 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:15936
dteme...@nvalaw.com is a real "attorney spending a great deal of time on software related IP licensing and litigation matters". http://nvalaw.com/ > > I can quote meaningless random papers too! > <http://www.sapnakumar.org/EnfGPL.pdf> > But no matter how one construes the GPL, the requirement of > consideration is not met. Though the licensors restrictions > in rights might benefit the licensor, the GPL does not state > whether those restrictions would translate into consideration > and if consideration would benefit the licensor or a third > party. The lack of a meeting of minds makes the GPL contract > theory fly in the face of the UCC, state common law, and common > sense. This leads us back to Moglens now plausible assertion > that the GPL is not a contract. http://www.sapnakumar.org/ sapnakumar.org is just yet another crazy academic akin to Moglen and Lessig. The stuff from crazy academics akin to Moglen and Lessig such as sapnakumar.org is indeed mostly meaningless bullshit, I agree. regards, alexander. P.S. "Every computer program in the world, BusyBox included, exceeds the originality standards required by copyright law." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss