rjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: >> On 2007-12-08, Bruce Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The GPL's track record has been and continues to be 100% enforceable. >> >> I've never seen a US case involving the GPL come to a verdict. Of >> course there are the German cases, but given the different legal >> system you can hardly compare the outcome there to the USA. > > U.S. Federal Courts are very sensitive to legal standing issues > concerning "case and controversy" under Article III of the > Constitution:
[...] > The district court is apt to dismiss the GPL claims sua sponte when it > realizes the plaintiffs are claiming injury for rights belonging not > to the plaintiffs but "all third parties". > > It is a matter of great embarrassment to a district judge for an > appeals court to rule that the district court had no business hearing > the case in the first place. :) And that's the reason for the bigwig defendant lawyers to rather fold than get the case heard in a court that would likely dismiss it? Are you sure you know what you are trying to argue for? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
