Re: GPL is like a cancer

2009-04-16 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The word exclusive means only the owner and *no one else* may do and authorize. The word authorize is at the heart of all copyright licenses. Because of this fact, BSD licensed code forever remains under the BSD license unless the *owner* should choose to re-license

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-12 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I had figured that Rjack was saying that terms in the GPL are unenforceable because they are illegal. But now, in his latest posting, he seems to be saying the opposite: that terms in the GPL are illegal because they are unenforceable. Which is cyclic enough that nobody will ever win this

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-11 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack made two ludicrious claims. First, that the GPL causes promissory estoppel, and as a result, anybody can copy GPL software as he pleases, with no limitations. I will discuss this later. Second, that the GPL, if treated as causing a contract to form, is unenforceable due to illegality.

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-10 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: (I'm assuming that Rjack's recent sources of authority, namely, answers.com and merriam-webster.com, will not suffice here.) I had hoped after trying to teach you that the meaning of the term illegal changed with a change contexts, that a little something would

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-10 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack has outdone himself. I objected to his quoting answers.com and merriam-webster.com to show that the GPL contains illegal terms. I suggested that, since we have a couple of hundred years or more of case law discussing when a contract should be unenforceable due to illegality, Rjack ought to

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-10 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack is trying to show that the GPL contains illegal terms. Indeed, a sine qua non of contract doctrine is a shared expectation that the parties will execute the contract in accord with the law http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/143/143.F3d.1260.97-15781.html This is a case about an

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Your remark concerning use is interesting. There is a subtle distinction between use in the context of patents and that of copyrights. The patent grant states: [ a long, tedious, legal argument ] More and more, when I read Rjack's flawed and tedious arguments that

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Is there any significant difference between Rjack and Wallace? -- A very major difference is that judges were ruling against Wallace and that has not yet happened to Rjack. Ah yes! I had forgotten that Rjack has overruled the CAFC (repeatedly). I

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Present a rational, logical argument supported by legal authority and have at it. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with disagreeing with a court when relying on alternate but conflicting legal authority. The CAFC panel, comprising three smart people, already

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: If you acually think the Ninth Circuit will overrule it's own precendent because of the CAFC ruling, then I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell you -- cheap. I don't believe any of the Ninth Circuit's precedents are directly relevant to the

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Please identify what system(s) of law(s) provide a legal remedy for this so called misappropriation of software. So that we may further discuss misappropriation in more detail. Seems to be an ill-defined term. Does anybody else understand what Rjack is asking for?

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-06 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using the free GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC. Ignorance is no excuse!, they say, What's yours is now ours, you have been touched! You have pointed out a

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-04-05 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: I wrote: Did you all notice this major shift in Rjack's position? Previously, he was content to claim that the GPL is merely unenforceable... So now, according to Rjack, suddenly, the GPL contains illegal terms! Rjack now does a little backpedalling: 1)

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-04-05 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Having declared the GPL to have not only unenforceable terms, but also illegal terms, Rjack is now trying to save the situation by quoting answers.com and merriam-webster.com. Has the Second Circuit's recent role as the leading authority on the common law of contracts been usurped by these

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-04-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Sure, but the hollering about GPL is not enforceable is beside the point I am beginning to believe that you *really* don't understand that a U.S. court will refuse to enforce an illegal contract term against a defendant regardless of whether the defendant

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-04-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The CAFC's copyright decisions are utterly irrelevant to U.S. copyright law. The fact that the CAFC ignored it's own precedent simply demonstrates your confused mind since the CAFC has no copyright law precedent. Rjack is assuming that stare decisi applies only to

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-04-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: I think you are placing too much emphasis on the term illegal. In the GPL sense, since it is a civil issue, the term is equivalent to unenforcable or invalid or any other word that boils down to being unable to recover damages. Rjack, he's posting this

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: American common law is historically based upon English common law: 1. This Act shall be known as THE CIVIL CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, and is in Four Divisions, as follows: . . . 22.2. The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or

Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle

2009-04-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Tim Smith reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com writes: You could just as validly argue that it must have been a large amount, because if it was small, TomTom would be announcing the amount. In reality, typically in a settlement over this kind of business litigation, if one side wants the terms kept

Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle

2009-04-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Tim Smith reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com writes: The only conclusion drawing has been from you--you've concluded that because you don't know the details, it must have been a tiny settlement. Whenever anyboby acts in a manner contrary to his normal behavior, we should look for an explanation.

Re: Microsoft and TomTom settle

2009-03-31 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: At the Software Freedom Law Center Eben Moglen should announce, At the S.F.L.C. propaganda is our most important product. Only if Tom-Tom really is the loser. But what if Tom-Tom paid Microsoft only $1.00? There are those that will argue that Tom-Tom paid a lot

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-27 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Alexander is trying to explain to you that a requirement qualifies as a condition precedent to a copyright grant if and only if the requirement *must* occur *before* the grant of rights becomes effective (contract performance). Obviously, the requirement cannot

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-27 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Rahul, do you really believe that you can cause source code to to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License *before* you ever distribute a copy of the source code to be licensed to those third parties? If you really

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Since the license is strictly construed against the drafter the license, because of promissory estoppel, would provide a defense to copyright infringement. As I recall, when I asked you for what was promised, I got no answer. -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net claims that promissory estoppel would be a defense to copyright infringement of a GPL-licensed work because of the following alleged promise: You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes, following up to Rjack: How can there be a contract when there's been no agreement between the parties involved? Rjack already lost this argument under a different subject heading. Each time he loses an argument he reposts it under a new subject heading. See

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: The CAFC's decision has not been overruled, and therefore stands. Wait a minute...I thought Rjack had overruled the CAFC, repeatedly, under a variety of subject headings? -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ ___

Re: More FSF hypocrisy

2009-03-23 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: If something has no commercial value, being free as in beer... GPL software is supposed to be free as in free speech, not free as in free beer. And also: The commercial value of software is determined not by what the license states, but by what it would cost

Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

2009-03-23 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Alexander Terekhov wrote: GPLv3 is clear as mud. ... It seems clear enough to me A program which is written to use a library is not a derivative work of that library... I did not find the phrase derivative work in the GPL v3 text. I found it in v2,

Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

2009-03-23 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: I did not find the phrase derivative work in the GPL v3 text. I found it in v2, but you are discussing v3, are you not? If so, it would be better to stick to the language in GPL v3. ... That term, derivative work, comes from copyright

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: If you think that a public contract of adhesion such as the GPL is going to establish a new rule controlling the *distribution* of derivative works then you are clearly mistaken: The GPL is just a bunch of words. A bunch of words is not by itself a contract. That

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: DE FOREST RADIO TEL. CO. V. UNITED STATES, 273 U. S. 236 (1927) ... Jacob Maxwell Inc., v. Veeck, 110 F.3d 749 (11th Cir. 1997). ... ...Seventh Circuit's ruling: Rjack, you seem to be trying to learn and argue basic concepts of contract law by reading and quoting

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I wrote: The federal courts, including the US Supreme Court, may sometimes apply state contract law, but they do define or develop it and they do not establish the meanings of common-law terms. For all that they must defer to the state courts. Typographical correction: but they do define or

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Please don't spank me Professor Dhesi. I was probably reading the ALR's Restatement of Contracts and Corbin on Contracts when you were still peeing in a diaper. If that is true, it would explain a lot. You would have been doing what you claim to have probably done

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-18 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Whether this [act] constitutes a gratuitous license, or one for a reasonable compensation, must, of course, depend upon the circumstances; 273 U.S. 236, United States Supreme Court (1927). Neither the Artistic License nor the GPL cleanly fit these models

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-18 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Well... there weeent the goalposts. Out to the fifty yard line... A perceptive observation. The evolution of the GPL from revision 1 to 2 to 3 doed reflect shifting goalposts, designed to adjust to changing conditions. No doubt there will be a

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-17 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: GNU fans never lose, they just mooove the goalposts. I feel your pain. Asking for the maximum possible, and then settling for a lot less, is a common strategy that is, unfortunately, embedded into the adversary system of justice. Rjack, if it were

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-17 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: I have made a consistent claim in a long history of internet postings that, The GPL is unenforceable under U.S. copyright law. These posts consist of legal reasoning presented in the general form of the arguments that are presented in U.S. courts. These arguments

Re: Tom Tom and Microsofts Linux patent lock-down ..

2009-03-16 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: What is kind of interesting here is that the GPL purists, notably SJVN, a Linux blogger of note, is insisting that TomTom be barred from making any kind of patent deal with Mr. Softee Welcome to the workings of the adversary system of justice. Maybe this

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-02 Thread Rahul Dhesi
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: I think Rjack has a valid point that a court might well treat the GPL as a contract in such a case. Huh? You can't be held to a contract you did not sign. Does every contract require a signature? -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Here's my citation: ...abandonment of a contract can be accomplished only through mutual assent of the parties, as demonstrated by positive and unequivocal conduct inconsistent with an intent to be bound [ no public link ] That citation will not help you. You

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: I think you're confusing conditions qualifying performance of a contract with rescission of a contract but I can't be sure. You can be sure. I'm not, you are. You are ignoring the plain language of the GPL where is says provided that several times, and will

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Unfortunately, if you wish to refute my cited authority of Graham v James you'll have to do it on your own dime. The case *clearly* refutes automatic termination due to breach so either you haven't read it or are incapable of understanding it. Alexander Terekhov

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The opinion that you so triumphantly cite states: Graham and James orally agreed to the licensing agreement and did not clearly delineate its conditions and covenants. A case about an unclear oral agreement -- that's all you can come up with? But the

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-03-01 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: Rjack u...@example.net writes: As I asked before: Is this the best you can do? As I previously stated , it was all I needed to do -- correctly cite the applicable law. I can't force you to learn or comprehend. You haven't cited law

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-28 Thread Rahul Dhesi
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Rjack u...@example.net writes: Also there is no evasion of an interpretation of the GPL since the GPL is not even under dispute. It would only be under dispute if the defendants claimed compliance as a defense ... Would the GPL be construed as a

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-28 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: That's not even wrong -- the SFLC raises the existence of the GPL license in their Complaint. The defendant need not claim compliance or for that matter need plead *anything*: Copyright disputes involving only the scope of the alleged infringer's license present

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-28 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Here's a nice link from Australia (which follows English common law same as in the US) that explains the difference: http://law.anu.edu.au/COLIN/Lectures/frust.htm ... Here's a nice citation from the Second Circuit that demonstrates that a termination of the

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-27 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: A dismissal with prejudice just means you can't refile for a violation that has already occurred. You can always refile for violations occuring after that. Rjack, how come you don't cite cases when amicus_curious gets the law wrong? OK Rahul. Here's your

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: I don't know that they are afraid of Verizon, I think that they do understand the meaning of dismissed with predjudice though and have no way to complain of Verizon distributing executable code for Actiontec routers that is not accompanied by any source code

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Thufir Hawat hawat.thu...@gmail.com writes: Does the binary file which is being distributed reside on the verizon server? If so, then Verizon would be required to make the source available upon request from a customer. If the binary isn't on a Verizon server then Verizon has no obligations

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: [ About whether a file that is being distributed reside on a server owned by Verizon ] Rahul Dhesi wrote: I don't see this distinction in the GPL anywhere. The distinction isn't in the GPL, it's in copyright law. No, copyright law grants a monopoly on what

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net presents another irrelevant citation: Generally speaking, New York respects a presumption that terms of a contract are covenants rather than conditions The GPL is very clear that its conditions are conditions. From version 2, and note the parts that I have

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: [ original on the topic of conditions versus covenants ] Any attempt otherwise to [do other things] will AUTOMATICALLY TERMINATE your rights under this License. [A] breach by one party does not automatically result in rescission of a contract Uh-oh.

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: [ still arguing promissory estoppel ] How do you get promissory estoppel without a promise? 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it... Permission alone is not a promise. What is the writer of the GPL promising to do or not to

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: [ still arguing promissory estoppel ] Permission is a voluntary waiver of a legal right ... The waiver of a legal right also constitutes consideration for a promise: 'In general a waiver of any legal right at the request of another party is a sufficient

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Neither you nor the SFLC understand the difference between a scope of permitted use restriction and a condition precedent to a grant of rights... But the defendants' legal counsel do, and have apparently decided that your argument doesn't apply. And the CAFC, in

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-23 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: A copyright is a right against the world. Contracts, by contrast, generally affect only their parties... ... The GPL is a contract... As such it involves rights in rem that affects all persons. Congress forbid this kind of copyright control... [ various other

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Our company has a strict rule that we are not allowed to use anything that is connected to the GPL. The MIT license is OK though. Having such a strict rule is neither necessary not sufficient. An ethical person won't misappropriate copyrighted software

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: [ out-of-context quotes again ] ... The freedom of the district courts to follow the guidance of their particular circuits in all but the substantive law fields assigned exclusively to this court is recognized in the foregoing opinions and in this case.; ATARI,

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: In the trademark portion of this case, we will be guided by the relevant law in the Ninth Circuit, to the extent it can be discerned, and not require the district court here to follow conflicting rules, if any, arrived at in other circuits. Let me try to

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: I think that you are misreading the situations. Certainly a copyright owner who is selling access to his work is not interested in giving it away. That makes sense. But the BusyBox authors are totally willing to give their work away and have been doing so

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Section 3 of the GPL incorporates Section 2 which is rendered unenforceable due to 17 USC 301(a) Copyright invalid because federal law supersedes state law? What a headline that would make. Now if you could only get some defendant to actually argue this. And

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-22 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Exactly, if you choose to distribute *their* work then there are conditions. What's wrong with that? The conditions are silly and useless, making the authors appear to be the same. To the person who wishes to misappropriate somebody else's coyprighted

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Look at the SFLC website for a complete list. Typically, some company, for example Monsoon, uses stock FOSS stuff in their product, which is what the FOSS folk seem to want them to do... Typically these example companies are misappropriating copyrighted

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: [ quoting a blogger ] Developers care about the licenses on the software they use and incorporate into their projects, they like permissive licenses, and they will increasingly demand permissive licenses. ... The FSF's apparent lack of vision will lead to the

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Well that subject line was long ago. What I am saying is the the SFLC and its client BusyBox are just wasting the world's time. Perhaps they have a legal right to do that, but it is still nonsense and at the end of the day they will be remembered as being

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: ...If takes negligible effort to include a copy of the GPL with their software distributions. If they don't, this is clearly an attempt to hide their wrong-doing. -- I don't agree with that. The FOSS value proposition is that if you use it, fine, and if

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: The companies misappropriating GPL software are thus causing a lot of time and effort to be expended. If they respected the copyrights of software authors, all of this discussion would be unnecesary. Or if the authors weren't such egomaniacs, they could

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: I don't suggest that enforcement itself is the problem, it is the enforcement of meaningless requirements The CAFC has ruled that these requirements are not meaningless. The CAFC opinion is advisory only and contrary to other circuits (including its own

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-21 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: The CAFC has ruled that these requirements are not meaningless. -- They suggested that the requirements were not meaningless to the copyright holders who get a thrill out of seeing their name in print, but that is meaningless to me. I think that it speaks

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-20 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: That gives FOSS a bad name. Who wants to use stuff like that and risk getting bitten by the looney tunes that think software is some kind of religious experience? There is a lot of truth in what you wrote, and it's not specific to free software. Enforcement

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-18 Thread Rahul Dhesi
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Your baseline is wrong. You can always pick two points A and B and claim a positive difference. If somebody starts beating you, and then stops, you can claim that the stopping is a positive difference and that you are therefore victorious. This is not how

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-18 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: Your baseline is wrong. No, it's not. How else should GPL enforcement work?... A disingenuous question. A victory occurs where potential wrong-doers get the message that if they violate the GPL for a period, they will end up with a net

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-18 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Which plaintiff has has ever paid any damages in a GPL case? Please show the court's decision or a settlement agreement of record. First we saw confusion between standing and subject matter jurisdiction. Now we see confusion between plaintiff and defendant. What

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-17 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: Actually this by itself is not victory. I'm not privy to the details of the settlement; it's possible that more was done. As outside observers, availability of the source is the only thing we can see. Since we don't know the whole story

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-17 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: Since we don't know the whole story, let's not assume victory. I don't see why not. It remains a fact that anyone who now gets an Actiontec router has the GPLed firmware source code available, whereas that was once not true

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-16 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Why would I want to try that Rahul? Just read the prevailing law in the Second Circuit where the SFLC filed its Busybox suits: ...Whether this requirement is jurisdictional is not up for debate in this Circuit. On two recent occasions, we have squarely held that

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-16 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The district court had no jurisdiction because the SFLC's plaintiffs had no standing... The Busybox plaintiffs had no standing to invoke the district court's jurisdiction because the plaintiffs had no copyrighted works registered with the Copyright Office. You can

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-16 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Why not just honestly admit that the Busybox plaintiffs had no standing to file their frivolous, propagandistic lawsuits and be done with the matter Rahul? You are entitled to your opinion. None of the defendants in these cases seem to share that opinion, since

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-15 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The Verizon lawsuit involved no registered copyrights. The copyright infringement claims were without standing to even be heard in federal court so 17 USC 512 is *utterly irrelevant*... References, please. Why would one need registration to get standing? Were you

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-15 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: References, please. Why would one need registration to get standing? Were you maybe confusing between jurisdiction and standing? Even so, references, please. Why troll today? Bored Rahul? You participated in this thread: My participation isn't what one

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-15 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: Rjack wrote: If SFLC and GPL supporters want to argue victory AT the end of the Verizon case, the router manufacturer made the GPLed software available, where it had not been available before the case. Actually this by itself is not victory. It means that

Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

2009-02-15 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: References, please. Why would one need registration to get standing? Were you maybe confusing between jurisdiction and standing? Even so, references, please. ... How about a good law article from the SSRN or one of the online law reviews? Use your mouse

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: But this doesn't explain why you seem to think that the license should use US-specific language. One tactic of trolling is to endlessly ask why questions especially concerning other's motivations. Perhaps you should simply state your reasons why I shouldn't

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: I live in a U.S. jurisdiction... I will continue to legally interpret the GPL under US copyright law... You provided a good explanation of why, if you were writing a license, you might use US-specific language. But you haven't given a good reason why the FSF, when

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-07 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: But you haven't given a good reason why the FSF, when drafting a license to be used globally, should make it US-specific. You have won Rahul!!! You have totally stumped me. I can't give a good reason for a global FSF license -- the idea of a globally

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-06 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: The FSF and GPL3 tries to pull a fast one by substituting the term convey for the term distribute as it is used in 17 USC 106(3)... Some might think it wise to use terms not specific to US law for software that will get worldwide propagation. Please explain why

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-06 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Some might think it wise to use terms not specific to US law for software that will get worldwide propagation. Please explain why you seem to disagree. Attempting to use a license for worldwide propagation (presumably for one vast World Socialist Order) under

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-04 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: That seems like the start of a cute trick. If I make a copy from a legitimate source, then it is a legitimate copy that I can give away. I cannot copy it, but I can give it away. So if I make a million copies directly from the legitimate source, I have a

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2009-02-02 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: As the United States Supreme Court unequivocally stated, ...It goes without saying that a contract cannot bind a nonparty. Can a person a non-party lawfully distribute GPL software? -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/

Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

2009-01-27 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: amicus_curious wrote: ... That's what free software aims to accomplish, and that you find it preposterous says more about you than about the FSF. Indeed it does, as does the odd observation that people criticizing free software in this forum are more likely to

Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

2009-01-27 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes of GPL violators as poor souls: But these poor souls are simply using embedded Linux/Busybox in lieu of more conventional Linux/GNU Utilities to run their applications. There is no benefit to the community of any real significance in harassing them over adding

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-01-12 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Downloading constitutes a manifestation of assent. So if the downloader doesn't know about the license, or knows about it but explicitly refuses to agree to it as he does the download, this is still a manifestation of assent? Merriam-Webster says assent

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-01-11 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: Rjack u...@example.net writes: Next thing you know you'll be calling a copyright license a contract: I'm staying out of this license/contract debate, but since you are not, how do you justify calling it a contract in the specific case

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-01-10 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack u...@example.net writes: Next thing you know you'll be calling a copyright license a contract: I'm staying out of this license/contract debate, but since you are not, how do you justify calling it a contract in the specific case that the person downloading GPL software hasn't agreed to the

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-01-09 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: Why would anyone really care unless there were some benefit to be obtained by the author due to the right to control the distribution? The copyright act contains language such as ...to distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-01-08 Thread Rahul Dhesi
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: I think that the issue of consideration is paramount. The copyright laws exist to protect the author's ability to benefit from the author's artistic cleverness. If the author chooses not to benefit in a conventional way, the benefit that is expected must at

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: The GPL is non-commercial!

2008-12-02 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack writes: Aren't you a being a little presumptuous when you simply ignore the doctrine of promissory estoppel when considering a failed license? What's the promise here? -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list

Re: Bell Micro defense counsel

2008-09-29 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ trolling begins again ] Out-of-context quotes coming soon. -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

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