Rjack wrote: [... uscourts.gov/dc/opinions/saris/pdf/progress%20software.pdf ...]
> I have read the decision many times and the judge made *no* attempt The FSF was not happy with Judge Saris. Here's free advice right from the "GPL Compliance Lab" (my what a bunch of pompous lunatics): http://www.novalis.org/talks/lsm-talk-2004/slide-31.html <quote copyright=Free Software Foundation, 2004> Don't go to court FSF hasn't. Court is expensive Judges don't understand technology "Is static linking like two icons on one desktop?" -Judge Saris, MySQL v. Nusphere oral argument </quote> Translation: the FSF doesn't really believe that they could fool a judge into buying (hint: the GPL lost miserably in MySQL v. Nusphere/Progress) http://web.novalis.org/talks/compliance-for-developers/slide-49.html [begin textual copying copyright=Free Software Foundation] July 27, 2004 GPL Compliance for Software Developers Legal notes ---------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notes Static linking creates a derivative work through textual copying Most dynamic linking cases involve distributing the library Still a derivative work: Dynamic linking Distributing only the executable (testtriangle) Still a derivative work: Distributing the source code of software which links to a library [end textual copying] GNU-ish "legal notes" idiocy. 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
