Re: New licence and driver SDK ?

Ed Cogburn wrote:
[...]
> If you really believe they are bluffing, then call them on it.  Violate the
> GPL based on a linking issue and let the whole world, including the FSF, know
> about it.  Then we'll *all* find out if they are bluffing, and/or whether the
> GPL can stand up in court.  So far I hear a lot of bitching, yet no one who
> believes the GPL is wrong has put their money where their mouth is and taken
> the FSF/GPL to court. 

That's ass backwards logic, so to say. Well, why don't you ask FSF 
to provide an update on their "enforcement action" against Linksys 
and others (the drivers stuff, I mean)?
 
>                       *You* may absolutely convinced its wrong, but you
> aren't the judicial system, so excuse me if wait to hear from a *judge*
> whether the GPL is valid or not.

I think that the GPL is quite valid. It just can't "infect" 
independent software (in the sense of copyright law). "API" is a 
boundary that the GPL can't cross.

regards,
alexander.