Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:27:54 -0500 |
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On Saturday 13 December 2003 07:03, David Woodhouse wrote: >On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 15:26 -0500, Brian Beattie wrote: >> I'd be willing to bet, that since bathing in creosote is extremely >> unhealthy, the courts might well find that that restriction was >> nonsense. This being the case they might decide that taken as a >> whole the license was a fraud and grant the public the right to >> unrestricted use of the product in question. Especially if the >> defendants lawyer was particularly good. > >The misuse of copyright defence is _very_ limited, and it's not > about being reasonable or healthy. > >If I charged money for my licence _and_ made the creosote > requirement, perhaps the court would be able to find a legal > loophole which hasn't yet been mentioned. > >The court is much less likely to attempt this if the creosote is the >_only_ thing I'm asking for, and if that's the whole raison d'etre > of my licence, and the only reason I'm letting you use my work in > the first place. > >Otherwise where does it end? I tell you that you can use my software >'when Hell freezes over' and since that's also unreasonable you get > to use it without restriction? :)
Chuckle... Hell quite often freezes over, or up as they say.
Hell, Michigan that is. :-)
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