Alexander Terekhov wrote: "The doctrine “forbids the use of the [copyright] to secure an exclusive right or limited monopoly not granted by the [Copyright] Office and which is contrary to public policy to grant.” Altera Corp. v. Clear Logic, Inc., 424 F.3d 1079, 1090 (9th Cir. 2005)(citation omitted)."
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2008cv03251/204881/52/0.pdf This is the central flaw of the GPL license. It attempts to secure the exclusive rights of a modifying author who accepts GPL code by attempting to force them to license their modifications "to all third parties" under terms of the GPL. A "viral" public copyright license is the very definition of copyright misuse. Sincerely, Rjack :) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
