On 11/10/2010 12:23 AM, Greg Reddin wrote:
Whether there is a legal basis and whether a lawsuit is pragmatically
a good idea are two completely different questions.
I can accept that - but at this point, I don't see the point in keeping
on complaining about a point asserting that it's not legal, while the
absence of any lawsuit implies that there are no basis for a legal action.
On 11/09/2010 10:58 PM, Stuart McCulloch wrote:
Sigh... it's the difference between theory and practice. Just because
someone develops a license doesn't necessarily mean they are best placed
to prosecute in court. Sure they could be called as an expert witness on
that particular license, but that doesn't make them prosecutors - not
all lawyers are equal! (or in other words... who's better at flying a
plane, the person who designed it or a pilot?)
This is how the ASF defines itself:
... The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and
financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. ...
What does that "provides legal support"? Isn't it as the FSF, that sees
also as the entity that sues people infringing the GPL? As Boeing, they
seems to be both the person who designs and the one who flies the plane.
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