On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:21:32PM +0100, João Miguel Neves wrote:
A Ter, 2003-08-12 às 20:54, Niall Douglas escreveu:
My own opinion is given recent historical judgements by US courts with regard to similar issues, it does not bode well. The fact the GPL has the sweeping power it does it because it can be interpreted in so many ways ie; it's not been fixed.
I couldn't disagree more with you on this. The force of the GPL and the reason why no company so far, after hundreds of GPL violations, dared to go to court against the GPL is because there aren't much doubts about its meaning.
Legally the GNU GPL is a well examined license due to its wide use over that long period. So I completely agree with João here, the GNU GPL ist clear and legally very effective.
If you want to understand how much work has gone into getting the GPL to this point read the "Enforcing the GPL" series in http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/