rjack wrote:
A court would agree to that because of a doctrine under U.S. common law known as promissory estoppal:
What in the world are you talking about? Promissory estoppel applies when someone is induced to action because of a promise made, and then the one who made the promise refuses to honor it. In the case of the GPL, the terms of the license are clear, and no promise is violated by the copyright holder - the recipient of the licensed software is always free to do exactly as the license says. Indeed, the promissory estoppel will work in the opposite direction; by distributing GPLed software, the distributor has promised to uphold the conditions of the license, and if he does not do so, he must stop distributing because only be enforcing his promise can injustice be averted. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
