5 Mar
2007
5 Mar
'07
11:30 p.m.
(3) The GPL has never been tested in court
http://www.fsf.org/news/wallace-vs-fsf note that during this thread there was a note from a contributor to promise to not sue a potentially infriging use. you should be careful of such promises, particularly considering that some fsf licenses include copyright assignment...in which case it will be the fsf enforcing the gpl, not the original authors (which is the specific purpose of the assignment). the fsf has a vested interest in showing that their licenses have teeth, although more in the case of the glp than in the lgpl. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html