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Re: The GPL dream is finally over!
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Linonut |
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Re: The GPL dream is finally over! |
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:34:44 -0400 |
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* Alexander Terekhov peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Linonut's message quoted below proves that you just can't reason with
> the GNU GPL true believers. Amusingly crazy clownish guys.
>>
>> > http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/MySQLcounterclaim.pdf
>> >
>> > MySQL's counter-complaint asserting breach of GPL license contract
>> > ("COUNT VIII Breach of Contract (GPL License)") and asking for
>> > declaratory (court to declare GPL terminated) and injunctive (court to
>> > preliminary and permanently enjoin Progress/NuSphere from "copying,
>> > modifying, sublicensing, or distributing the MySQL(TM) Program")
>> > relief (plus damages, of course).
>> >
>> > Note that Judge Saris correctly denied MySQL's motion for preliminary
>> > injunction applying contract (not copyright) standard regarding
>> > irreparable harm.
>> >
>> > http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/opinions/saris/pdf/progress%20software.pdf
>> >
>> > What say you now, Linonut?
>>
>> That the above supports viewing the GPL as a license, not a contract.
I amend what I say, having skimmed the counter claim instead of your
snippage of it. It's even worse for you. It's a trademark dispute.
What did the court say? (The second PDF)
1. Progress Software and NuSphere cannot use the MySQL mark.
2. They /can/ continue to distribute the GPL software.
See, this is why guys like you can't be trusted. You post only what
supports your crazy agenda. You mix-and-match legal situations,
ignoring the dichotomy of the court order:
For the reasons set forth above, MySQL's Motion for
Preliminary Injunction (Docket No. 24) is GRANTED in part and
DENIED in part.
I'm not a GPL true believer. I simply see that, whatever legal chaff
you try to throw up as a reason why the GPL cannot be effective, it
/has/ been effective, and very much so, for the last decade.
But only effective for what it was intended -- the free disseminiation,
modification, and advancement of software.
Why you are so against it, to the point of essentially lying about court
cases, is beyond me.
--
Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more
important than something else. If what already is, is more important
than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what
isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
-- Werner Erhard
- The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!,
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- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16