In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup wrote: > Competitors might try to sue for misleading advertising, but that's about > it. There are no warranties, implied or otherwise, coming with GPLed > software. The only person who has standing to sue for non-compliance is > the copyright holder himself. As a recipient of misleadingly > GPL-labelled, or incomplete software, you can't sue your source for > compliance. You can only report this to the copyright holder, and he > might consider action.
Well, there will be no cause of action under copyright law, but there might be under contract. When party X promises something, and party Y detrimentally relies on that, then the doctrine of promissory estoppel can make it so there is effectively an enforcable contract. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
