On 5/11/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [an argument, much of which would make sense in a parallel universe where the GPL is on the law books as 17 USC 666]
I am not a lawyer (or a fortiori a judge), so all that I can do to explain why this isn't valid legal reasoning is to point you at documents to which you and I both have access. To the extent that the arguments that I have made involve fine points, I have backed them up with more valid binding case law than you can shake a stick at. You have offered me the instruction sheet for a copyright registration form and some definitions from random online dictionaries. So I'm not going to say that your point of view isn't perfectly valid as your own point of view; but I don't have any reason to believe that it's a good predictor of how a court case involving the FSF suing FooSoft for linking against GNU readline would be argued. Cheers, - Michael