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Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Bruce Perens and world table


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Bruce Perens and world table
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:21:53 +0200
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> [...]
>> Dan's blog entry quoted a lawyer who's being consulted during the draftign
>> of GPLv3 who said that parts of GPLv3 aren't legally sound.  
>
> He said that GPLv3 draft is even worse than GPLv2 which nobody 
> understands.

Well, it is certain you don't understand GPLv2, as your predictions
regarding its interpretation in the courts tend to end up wrong,
making you call the judges names.

> The legally unsound bit was about the FSF "position" regarding
> dynamic linking.

Which is not codified in either license since it depends on local
copyright laws.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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