Ian wrote: > In other words, even if we assume that such a suit could succeed, the > only people who have the standing to file it have stated publically > that they will not do so.
I would be similarly curious if a suit against Linus Torvalds (sp?) could succeed. Parts of Linux are clearly GPL and I suspect some is contributed by authors who wish the GPL to be applied "virally" making Linux in its entirety GPL, by necessity. Thus, in theory, one of those authors would seem to have rights to sue someone (either an end user or Linus) for linking against Linux and distributing the result--thus transitively against such an authors code and violating that authors copyright. Linus is certainly "guilty" of contributing to such an infringement. However, Ian's basic point is worth emphasizing. The GPL is only as constraining as the software's authors desire to enforce it. The only question the small point above brought up is in a collective work, is it not likely that some of the authors' desires are getting trampled on? -Chris -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3