At 01:53 10/02/2001 -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> >When it was announced as an intention it was said that input was being
> >gathered. I've raised a number of issues where I believe the language of
> >the Exhibit is flawed and where there are issues of derivative lockout
> >amongst other things. So far none of those have been addressed
> >definitively by mozilla.org.
>
> But when I asked you to identify any law or court decision that
>would provide a legal cause of action for someone litigating based on your
>"license" theories, you were never able to do that. Pretty much
>everything else you have said has been based on these theories, which
>you have refused to substantiate by a reference to any law or court
>decision.
Well a) they aren't theories they are logical conclusions based on the
licence language and b) I've already said I've taken my own legal advice.
A legal cause of action would not result and that is the _whole_
point. With the licence as written it is possible for copyright holders to
be restricted from using derivatives of their own work and under some
circumstances estopped from using even their own work where it is 'known'
that a GPL version exists. I think the latter point is partly why Tom Lane
has a problem with a general availability under GPL, other than the fact
that he contributed code and it was accepted under the licence he granted
in the first place and changing the goal posts at this late stage bothers him.
> I do not know the decision making process within Mozilla.org,
>but I imagine that they're smart enough to evaluate the factuality
>of what is being claimed and informally filter accordingly.
I've no idea what that paragraph means, unless you're trying to say that
only ghostly members of mozilla.org are competent to draw conclusions on
the licence language.
Simon
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