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Re: More FSF hypocrisy


From: Rjack
Subject: Re: More FSF hypocrisy
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:09:09 -0400
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
amicus_curious wrote:
It is sort of cutting their own throat, though.  If something
has no commercial value, being free as in beer, any case asking
for monetary damages for violating its copyright could simply
result in a summary judgement for zero compensation.

The infringers would still be enjoined from creating further
copies, which would be fine from a GPL enforcement point of view.
I think the FSF might consider the loss of monetary damages for
themselves to be a fair trade.

Read your beloved Jacobsen v. Katzer outcome to see what happens to
those kinds of requests for injunctive relief.


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