rjack wrote:
STOP attempting to shift the burden of proof for YOUR claims.
What claims? I'm not making claims, you are.
It's up to YOU to demonstrate a causal link between an SFLC suit and source code being published.
No, it's not. It's you and Terkhov who claim that the SFLC is ineffective, unethical, whatever. To demonstrate that, I invite you to show me an instance where the SFLC dropped a case (or lost a case) and then the source code for the GPL-licensed software in question remained unavailable. If you can't find such a case, why should I believe you when you say their tactics are ineffective? > Even blogs promoting open source are questioning the SFLC tactics. Oh my god! How could I have been so wrong! I didn't know that there was a *blog* questioning things!
Even a voluntary settlement agreement will not demonstrate the
> *legal* validity of the GPL. Many firms using open source wish > to avoid expensive litigation and have a strong financial > incentive for promoting open source cooperation and settlement. Um, duh? That's the point of free software! The point of GPL enforcement activity is so that no one gets to free-ride on the software without obeying its licensing terms. Generally, the people upon whom enforcement is required are more lazy than evil. They're grabbers - they see some software they can use and go ahead and use it without obeying its license, and they just ignore warnings to the contrary. Once a suit is filed they realize that ignoring warnings won't just make them go away, and then they come into compliance and the suit is dropped.
SFLC promoters wish too claim that the GPL is *legally* enforceable -- nothing short of a court ruling will provide the *legal* answer.
Or many court rulings, for that matter. We have an answer in Germany - the GPL is legal and enforceable there.
So why duck an opportunity for a court ruling time and time again
> with voluntary dismissals? Courts do not involve themselves in cases where the parties have settled amongst themselves. Trials are adversarial processes. The parties cannot come to court and declare that they are in agreement but want to have the trial anyway just to see what happens! _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss