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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Attorney fees |
Date: | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:49:50 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
rjack wrote:
The *recipients* of the promised code have standing as third party donee beneficiariesto invoke promissory estoppel as plaintiffs against the*distributors* of GPL'd code. I am certainly pleased to hear that you finally agree with my legal position.This is what I have always claimed: The GPL terms are legally unenforceable by plaintiff-authors of GPL'd source code. When you
> release your source code under the GPL it becomes a charitable > subscription "donation" to the general public. The recipients may have a claim against the distributor. That does not invalidate any claims of the copyright holders. It simply means that there may be many ways to force a code grabber to disgorge the source code of GPL-licensed software that he distributes, which is the goal.
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