gnu-misc-discuss
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: More FSF hypocrisy


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: More FSF hypocrisy
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:47:53 -0400
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)

Rjack wrote:
That leaves the GPL open to the different common law contract
> interpretation rules of the fifty different states (plus Guam
> and Puerto Rico).

This is not a problem because of 17 USC 301.

If it were legally enforceable, which it is not.

The GPL is legal and enforceable (in the sense that if someone
copies and distributes without obeying its conditions he is
liable for copyright infringement).


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]