Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269290AbTGJOue (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:50:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269294AbTGJOue (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:50:34 -0400 Received: from out002pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.141]:492 "EHLO out002.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269290AbTGJOub (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:50:31 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Dodd Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:05:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Miles Bader , Andre Hedrick References: <3F0D7B0F.8090506@cypress.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0D7B0F.8090506@cypress.com> Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307101105.08279.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [151.205.62.27] at Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:05:10 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2010 Lines: 55 On Thursday 10 July 2003 10:41, Thomas Dodd wrote: >Miles Bader wrote: >> Thomas Dodd writes: >>>Either license would still reguire registration for enforcement. >>> But the _new_ license, like OSL, would "will have teeth to >>> defend", and stand up in court since the GPL didn't. >> >> Why? If the court loss was due to a lack of registration, the >> content of the license has no relevance -- _any_ license would >> lose in that situation. What court loss? This hasn't to my knowledge been exposed on /. I would have thought it would be all over the front page, particularly if it was a loss against the GPL. >Where did you get that the "loss was due to a lack of registration" > ? > > From Andre's 6/29 message: > > I am in the process of getting the formal registered copyright. > > > > I will take GPL to court and will not settle out of court. > > GPL will live or die in this case, I do not give a damn which way > > it falls. > > > > GPL wins great. > > GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then > > it gets serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas > > of open source. > >Andre is formaly registering the copyright, so that the lawyers will >take the case. Without it, in the US at least, the case will never > be heard. Andre has stated this case will be heard, so the GPL will > be tested in court. The loss would not be related to registration. > > -Thomas > And where can a person view this 'replacement' GPL, called OSL? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/