Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> I still fail to understand what you find shocking > >> about the citation of Nimmer. > > > > Go and drop am email to Nimmer et. al. asking whether a copyright > > license is a contract or not. Let us know about his response. > > No, I don't think I will. > > People quote all sorts of stuff in lawsuits. In the case of this > brief, it claims that a license is sufficiently like a contract > that you can make similar claims for infringement. > > Here's an idea - why don't you go ahead and willfully defy the > GPL on some piece of code, get yourself sued, and see how it all > works out.
We all know how it works out. 1. Ignoring jurisdictional requirement SFLC files a complaint (warranting atomatic dismissal). 2. Shortly thereafter SFLC moves to dismiss the case WITH PREJUDICE against own clients (without any stipulation of settlement). 3. A face-saving press release appears claiming a "settlement" with NON-DEFENDANT third party. 4. Defendant continues wilfully defy the GPL (from now on with impunity due to res judicata since the case was dismissed WITH PREJUDICE against plaintiffs). http://www2.verizon.net/micro/actiontec/actiontec.asp http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/verizon-ceo-doesnt-know-about.html regards, alexander. -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
