[Am-info] GPL Unscathed in Court Test
Pieter Hulshoff
phulshof@xs4all.nl
Mon, 6 May 2002 18:13:13 +0000
> All the same,
> any business manager showing fear and trembling over the legal
> worthiness of the GNU General Public License (GPL) should read this
> week's interview with His Feistiness, Marten Mickos, boss of MySQL AB.
I don't want to appear sceptical, but is it even remotely interesting if =
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GPL is legal or not? If the GPL is legal, then its conditions can be=20
enforced. If it is not, copyright applies, and even stronger conditions c=
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be enforced. This implies that anyone who fights the GPL and wins, loses,=
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since the GPL is less restrictive than copyright.
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff