Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > So plaintiffs want to settle (having fruitless negotiations thus far) > > and are asking delay of a conference meant to encourage defendants to > > settle? > > The affidavit of service wasn't even filed until July 14. > I expect that in this case as in so many others, court > processes are slow and often delayed. > > The proof will be, once the case is over, whether the > defendants properly make available the sources of the > GPLed software that they are distributing. That most > likely will be the case, because quoting from the > complaint: > > > <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/jun/10/busybox/supermicro-complaint.pdf> > 15. On February 29, 2008, through their counsel, > Plaintiffs notified Defendant of its unlawful > conduct based upon its failure to comply with > the License. > 16. On April 16, 2008, Defendants counsel provided > Plaintiffs with source code which it represented > to be the complete and corresponding code for the > GPL-licensed software on the Infringing Products. > Plaintiffs initiated a technical review of the source > code and communicated to Defendant their other demands > for settlement of the matter. > 17. On April 25, 2008, through their counsel, Plaintiffs > notified Defendant that the source provided did not > include scripts used to control compilation and > installation of the executable, and therefore did not > constitute complete and corresponding source code > within the meaning of the license. > 18. Defendant has not responded to Plaintiffs April 25 > notice, and continues to distribute the Infringing > Products and Firmware in violation of Plaintiffs > exclusive rights under the Copyright Act. > > This means that, as usual, the defendants don't want to be > bothered with the GPL requirements, but once they're being > sued, they'll finally bite the bullet and do it right. Then > the SFLC will move to have the case dismissed, and you'll > once again treat it as a failure rather than a victory.
Man oh man. Hyman Rosen managed to find out that SFLC wants scripts... yet "PRAYER FOR RELIEF" doesn't mention scripts. Pre-trial conference: Judge: What's the issue? Defendants: SFLC wants scripts... Judge: What does that have to do with copyright infringement? Defendants: No idea. BTW, they've not registered copyrights and you lack jurisdiction, judge. Judge: (To SFLC) &*^$%%#$$%$##&^%$*^(&^% Case dismissed. 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
