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From: | RJack |
Subject: | Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:00:18 -0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 |
On 8/20/2010 9:49 AM, Hyman Rosen wrote:
The GPL is a license, not a contract. You don't "agree" to the GPL, you "accept" the terms of the GPL when you copy and distribute GPL-covered code whose rights you do not own. As part of "accepting" the GPL, you "agree", i.e., promise, not to claim your patent rights if they are embodied in the GPL-covered software you are copying and distributing when it is further used, copied, or distributed under the terms of the GPL.
The battle of Hyman The Crank v. The Federal Courts is now officially over. Hyman Rosen has overruled eighty-three years of unbroken federal court precedent. Methinks none should argue further with His Majesty. LMAO while ROFL. Sincerely, RJack :) You said WHAT? _ _ |L| |R| |M| /^^^\ |O| _|A|_ (| "o" |) _|F|_ _| |O| | _ (_---_) _ | |L| |_ | | | | ||-| _| |_ |-|| | | | | | | / \ | | \ / / /(. .)\ \ \ / \ / / / | . | \ \ \ / \ \/ / ||Y|| \ \/ / \__/ || || \__/ () () || || ooO Ooo
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