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Doogie, go to doctor.. [was: Re: The Court disagrees ..]


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Doogie, go to doctor.. [was: Re: The Court disagrees ..]
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:47:03 +0100

Doug Mentohl wrote:
> 
> Rjack wrote:
> 
> > The SFLC stated in their FSF v. Cisco Complaint that:
> 
> They still own the copyright ...
> 
> "This is an action by The Free Software Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit
> corporation organized under the laws of the State of Massachusetts
> (“Plaintiff”) by and through its attorneys, the Software Freedom Law
> Center, Inc., to recover damages arising from infringement of its
> copyrights by Cisco Systems, Inc."
> 
> "Plaintiff is, and at all relevant times has been, the copyright holder
> under United States copyright law in the Programs. 45. Defendant’s
> distribution of its Infringing Products and Firmware without approval or
> authorization by Plaintiff infringes Plaintiff’s exclusive copyrights in
> the Programs pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 501."
> 
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/complaint-2008-12-11.pdf

These are allegations from the FSF/SFLC, not the court's holdings.

The court won't have a chance to state its disagreements with the
FSF/SFLC view on facts and/or legal conclusions because the FSF/SFLC
will voluntary dismiss the case just like all previous GPL cases in
nysd.uscourts.gov.

regards,
alexander.

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