Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)

[Alexander Terekhov]

John Hasler wrote:
[...]
> The license is a conditional grant from you to others.  If they fail to
> comply with the conditions you can sue them for copyright infringement, but

Yet the GPL has been cited as a contract, and breach of the GPL as a 
contract was alleged, in both of the first two U.S. federal court 
cases in which the GPL was implicated. And even IBM has asserted 
breach of GPL contract claim against SCO.

> no one has standing to sue you for "violating" your own license.

Bullshit.

IP licenses are not akin to state permits. They are contracts. The 
licensor can also be sued for breach of contract.

regards,
alexander.