Ciaran O'Riordan <[email protected]> writes: > Rjack <[email protected]> writes: >> The case was dismissed WITH PREJUDICE against the FSF. > > Wait a minute. Did the court dismiss it IN ALL CAPS!!!! Well that changes > things. > > But seriously, "with prejudice" is a legal term with whatever range of > meanings in the USA. I don't know all the range of meanings, and > most/all people on this list don't know all the range of meanings, but > we see from today's announcement that FSF was clearly in a very strong > position. So, as nasty as "dismissed with prejudice" sounds, we now > know that it's just a legal term, it seems it's legal meaning is > actually quite tame.
It isn't tame. It means that the same suit cannot be brought again given the same circumstances. Since Cisco and the FSF now have a written agreement with regard to the GPL adhereance procedure, the circumstances _are_ different. So the next time the FSF takes Cisco to court for the same behavior, they need to make the non-heeding of this agreement part of the suit and can't just restart from scratch. Other than that, nothing has changed. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
