vivek khurana wrote:

>   I would say chances are low, GPL has once been
> tossed out by US courts.

I was not aware of this.  Cite, anyone?

It would be impossible to "toss out the GPL".  A Court may decide that the
GPL is non-enforcable, or does not apply, but this would only be for the
case under review.  Unless decided by a State's Supreme Court, or a Federal
Circuit Court, it would not set precedent.  Even in the latter case, I doubt
the facts of the SCO vs IBM case would be similar to the earlier case, so no
precedent could be cited.

Courts do not "toss out" documents.  Courts (both in India and the US,
derived from English Common law) decide on the facts of the *current* case,
not on abstract issues.  In India, the President can ask the Supreme Court
to review the legality of an issue, but no one else can.

Again, does anyone have a cite for the US case mentioned above?

--
Sanjeev


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