GPL vs BSD Licence

TM4525 at aol.com TM4525 at aol.com
Wed Oct 27 14:07:32 PDT 2004


In a message dated 10/27/04 4:49:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tedm at toybox.placo.com writes:
This is yet another example of the GPL license flaw.  While any of the
copyright holders of the Linux kernel could sue Allot, if they don't,
it pretty much builds evidence that is going to help those that
would argue that the GPL is uninforceable.

There's been a couple of other GPL cases like this - of infringement
that is being ignored.  One of these days I'm going to have to gather
up all these and write an article on it.
^-------------

A problem with suing a company with a team of lawyers is that is will
cost you a fortune, and what do you get? They have to agree not to
sell it anymore? Its a pretty big project proving the validity of a license
thats never really been seriously tested. You can't really claim damages 
if you have no intention of making money as a basic premise (and 3 
times nothing is nothing). So they probably figure no one is going to do it.


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