Re: New licence and driver SDK ?

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:26:40AM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
> 
> [... linking ...]
> 
> > Of course the FSF's lawyers disagree with Rosen.  
> 
> FSF is just trying to bluff people. Do you seriously believe that 
> their claims like http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OOPLang 
> could stand in court of law? Uhmm, on a second thought... it could 
> probably help FSF's lawyers to form the basis for raising the 
> insanity defense or something like that.

The main point is that many if not most of the free software/open source
community believes in it. It is not really all that important what one
legal system in one country believes, but what the whole group of
software authors who contribute code under this kind of licence believe
it to be, since after all, it is only them who have the power to sue
over it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther