On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:28:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wow, I am worried for our free software community then. > You sound like the software companies that do not want > people to be able to publicly publish security bug reports. > > How did the GPL get to its current state then? O darn, > we lost in court again, better go back to the drawing > board.
Nobody had yet the guts to challenge the GPL in court. In all cases where the FSF approached people and urged them to comply with the terms, people preferred to do so rather than going to court. If you are worried about enforcability of the GPL, please read the excellent articles "Free Software Matters: Enforcing the GPL" I and II by Prof. Eben Moglen, who does it daily. And if you have the chance, listen to him when he gives a talk in your area, he is an excellent speaker. http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
