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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- "A telling admission" by AaronWilli


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- "A telling admission" by AaronWilliamson (AW1337)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:44:20 +0200

Hyman Rosen wrote:
[...]
> In every case they file, the defendants have been illegally
> distributing GPLed software. After each of these cases has

Contract breach (let's assume a valid contract)/not fulfilling
contractual obligations is not illegal.

The contract laws recognize a concept called "efficient breach" which
encourages breach of a contract if it's economically efficient to do so.
Compliance with a contract is almost always voluntary -- if you choose
not to comply, then you don't have to. You merely have to compensate the
non-breaching party for his expectancy interest (pay contract damages). 

regards,
alexander.

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