Re: More FSF hypocrisy

[Alexander Terekhov]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:p_vyl.5043$3g7.1056@newsfe15.iad...

[... General Talking Pictures ... ]

> The GPL licenses copying and distribution only if the work ...

Stop being utter idiot Hyman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_the_General_Talking_Pictures_Case

"The Doctrine of the General Talking Pictures Case (or General Talking 
Pictures doctrine) is based on the decision of the US Supreme Court in 
General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Elec. Co.,[1] which legitimated 
so-called field-of-use limitations in patent licenses.

The decision held that "field-of-use limitations" on the scope of patent 
licenses to make and sell a product were enforceable, by way of a patent 
infringement suit against a licensee that violated the limitation and a 
company collaborating with it. A field-of-use limitation is a provision in a 
patent license that limits the scope of what the patent owner authorizes a 
manufacturing licensee (that is, a licensee that manufactures a patented 
product or performs a patented process) to do in relation to the patent, by 
specifying a defined field of permissible operation or specifying fields 
from which the licensee is excluded. By way of example, such a license might 
authorize a licensee to manufacture patented engines only for incorporation 
into trucks, or to manufacture such engines only for sale to farmers. If the 
licensee exceeded the scope of the licensee, it would commit patent 
infringement. More generally, this kind of license permits the licensed 
party (the "licensee") to use the patented invention in some, but not all, 
possible ways in which the invention could be exploited. In an exclusive 
field-of-use license the licensee is the only person authorized to use the 
invention in the field of the license.

The General Talking Pictures doctrine does not apply to a patent owner's 
sale of a product to a customer that imposes a restriction on what the 
customer may subsequently do with the product. Such sales are governed by 
the "exhaustion doctrine," rather than the General Talking Pictures 
doctrine."

http://opensource.org/docs/osd

"No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a 
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program 
from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research. "

regards,
alexander.

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