Rjack wrote:
It is absolutely amazing that two sets of three independent appellate judges in the same Federal Circuit managed to come to diametrically opposed rulings on the subject of scope of use restrictions.
It's not amazing at all. The StorageTek case involved a manufacturer trying to restrict a third party repair service from getting their software to work on some hardware that they sold. The JMRI case involves someone deliberately distributing code in violation of a copyright license. In fact, both of these cases honor the FSF notion of free software - the StorageTek case honors the freedom to run and modify software, and the JMRI case shows the effectiveness of the GPL and other such licenses. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
