There's one HUGE difference between the FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable
and the FCC ruling Microsoft's licenses to be unenforceable -- The amount of
money Microsoft could spend on lawyers to bludgeon the FCC into submission is
astronomical compared to the amount of money FSF could spend on lawyers!
The American legal system: the best justice money can buy!
Mark Rosenthal
On 10/1/15 12:22 PM, John Abreau wrote:
The FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable in the context of regulated
devices would be essentially no different from the FCC ruling Microsoft's
licenses to be unenforceable in the context of vendors using cracked copies
of Windows in regulated devices.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/1/2015 11:22 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
"Because I want to make money" is not, last I checked, an acceptable
excuse
for violating license terms. I don't see how that would be different from
selling cracked copies of Windows.
If the FCC were to rule the terms of the GPL to be unenforceable in the
context of regulated devices then there would be no violations. As I wrote
before, a software license cannot overrule FCC regs.
--
Rich P.
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