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Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library
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David Kastrup |
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Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library |
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Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:58:15 +0200 |
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> Nonsense. Price-fixing is a voluntary agreement between parties to
>> the detriment of other parties. But heeding an existing license is
>> not a bilateral agreement,
>
> IP licenses are bilateral agreements/executary contracts.
The GPL is not bilateral since the recipient is not required to accept
it.
>> and everybody else is free to use and
>> extend the software under the same license as everybody else.
>
> Making illegal price-fixing conspiracy in violation of Sherman Act
> by employing unlawful licensing agreement (i.e. contract) open for
> everybody to join the combination doesn't make it any less illegal.
A "conspiracy" which is in the open, free for anybody and does not
require signing a contract, is not much of a conspiracy. Look it up
in a dictionary, preferably one with legal focus.
[And another quotation barrage utterly irrelevant to the case]
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, (continued)
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- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/21
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, David Kastrup, 2006/06/21
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2006/06/21
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- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/21
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, David Kastrup, 2006/06/21
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/21
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- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/21
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2006/06/22
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- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, David Kastrup, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, David Kastrup, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/06/22
- Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2006/06/22