Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov wrote: >> > Injunctive Relief. Licensee agrees that monetary damages alone >> >> Except that the rights holders cannot demonstrate that the >> GPL has been accepted, since it is a public license which > > Man oh man. In all GPL complaints, SFLC and the right holders plead > "automatic termination" and that just can't possibly happen without > defendant's acceptance coming first.
That is just so that the defendant has to pick acceptance or non-acceptance as his line of reasoning. > The GPL itself states that "Therefore, by modifying or distributing > the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your > acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions > for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on > it." Actually, _this_ particular clause is in my opinion not likely to hold up in court literally in all its implications: in practice it will not be much more use than as an anti-cherrypicking clause that reinforces you either have to accept the GPL provisions or not, in their entirety. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
