Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:28:53 -0500 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Dell vs. GPL |
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Miles Bader wrote: > Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes: >>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. > > > The `copyright registration' requirements, whatever they are, would > seem to apply equally to the GPL and whatever other `OSL' you have, so > why on earth would some court loss related to copyright registration > have any effect on what license people choose?
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. A new GPL might also come about that is strong enough, but you still need the legal power to defend it.
-Thomas
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