Hyman Rosen wrote: [... "GPL-wins-in-French-court-case" brouhaha ... ]
> AFPA is awarded 8,000 plus legal fees. Hey Hyman, take that. http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/17/42 "No GPL License Enforcement Not a single claim (by either party), as cited in the courts decision, is based on (i) the GPL, (ii) any interpretation of the GPL or any of its terms as a contract, or (iii) any right established by law, such as the French Code on Intellectual Property (Code de la propriété intellectuelle), which contains the provisions establishing copyright, or the right of the author, in France. [...] This article has demonstrated that the news reported on the Internet concerning EDU 4 v. AFPA was, from a legal point of view, misleading6. It may be that the reporting suffered from erroneous understanding of the decision or was motivated by the desire for quick publicity and by an interest in the open source phenomenon. Some writers who reported this story undoubtedly strive to support the open source or free software phenomenon. But such support cannot be achieved by an unprofessional journalistic approach to matters of legal analysis. Unprofessionalism in such an area tends to reinforce the false belief that open source is solely a matter of non-professional software development. As a licensing model, open source should be treated like any other area of human life; legal analysis of open source issues should be guided by professionals. 6 Of course, one might say that it is not at all unusual that legal questions raised on the internet are handled in a misleading, incorrect or even false way, whether they relate to open source or something else. Vol. 1, Issue 2 International Free and Open Source Software Law Review" 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
