Re: softwarefreedom.org and busybox fellows 'win' DEFAULT JUDGMENT

[Alexander Terekhov]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=645119&cid=24595571

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No, the District Court had it right. If your license says "you can copy
this software provided you do X, Y, and Z", then you have a license to
copy the software. No doing X, Y, and Z violates the license, but does
not violate copyright law.

I can't make a license that says, "you can copy this software provided
you don't pick your nose" and then sue you for copyright infringement
for picking your nose.

Because lawsuits for copyright infringement have special powers (like
statutory damages and a presumption of irreparable harm), we can't let
people decide what's copyright infringement just by writing it in a
license. Congress has to do that.

This ruling is very wrong and very troubling.
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regards,
alexander.

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