Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 2/26/2010 10:29 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > > > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> > >> On 2/26/2010 10:07 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > >>> When was the last time that plaintiffs in a GPL case filed a > >>> (confidential) settlement to the court to be rolled into a > >> > court order? > >> > >> What for? > > > > This is done so that the court which was initially assigned the case may > > retain jurisdiction over it. The court is then free to modify its order > > as necessary to achieve justice in the case, and a party that breaches > > the settlement may be held in contempt of court, rather than facing only > > a civil claim for the breach. In cases where confidentiality is required > > by the parties, the court order may refer to another document which is > > not disclosed, but which may be revealed to prove a breach of the > > settlement. > > > > End Quote. > > > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_(litigation)> > > Same source:
Uh moron Hyman. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_(litigation)#United_States> > The settlement of the lawsuit defines legal requirements of the > parties, and is often put in force by an order of the court after > a joint stipulation by the parties. In other situations (as where > the claims have been satisfied by the payment of a certain sum of > money) the plaintiff and defendant can simply file a notice that > the case has been dismissed. > > After each one of the SFLC's cases have ended, the defendants have > made the GPLed sources properly available. So despite the settlement > agreements not being filed with the court, the SFLC has achieved its > desired outcome. Take your meds Hyman. Take your meds. regards, alexander. P.S. "I'm insufficiently motivated to go set up a GNU/Linux system so that I can do the builds." Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- 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
