At 20:07 23.02.2001 +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
>At 09:54 23/2/01 +0100, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>>Sure. A license to be worth the electrons it's written on must be
>enforceable. Who is going to do the enforcing? In the GPL/APL case there
>are two bodies involved, the FSF and the ASF. Say product X is dual
>GPL/APLed but it breaches both the GPL terms and the APL terms. The FSF
>folks will look at X and say, yes it breaches the GPL but it's OK since the
>user is probably using the APL terms. The ASF people will look at X and
>say, oh, it's breaching the APL but the user probably intends to use the GPL.
>
>No - the enforcement of licenses (at least in free software world) is
>always delegated to the body that owns the copyright. Even if the ASF
>released something under the GPL the FSF would have nothing to do with it -
>it would still be the ASF who must uphold it. The ASF would be responsible
>for identifying and pursuing breaches of either license ;)
>Cheers,
Good point. That kills the enforcement argument. :-) Ceki
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