Alexander Terekhov wrote:
To GNUtian Hyman Rosen: see comments below regarding the Blizzard case that you've liked so much...
I would be thrilled if the Blizzard case were overturned. I am very much in favor of people being able to reverse- engineer protocols and do things that are unanticipated by service providers, and to have those service providers not be able to use the law to stop them. Overturning this case will not adversely affect use of the GPL. I myself have in this newsgroup proposed the scheme that so worries Groklaw, having one party sell GPLed binaries plus source to a second party, which then resells only the binaries. I like it in the same spirit as the above - reverse-engineering a protocol, this time that of the law, to accomplish something against the will of the providers. I also find it very unlikely that the scheme will be used very much, if at all. Most GPL violations are by companies who can't be bothered to comply, not ones who deliberately don't want to comply. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
