Tim Smith wrote: [...] > Groklaw seems to agree with you. PJ says the Autodesk ruling is "poison > for FOSS" and hopes it is overturned. > > <http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091010152322226>
Yeah, yeah. Well, at least her own pseudo-paralegal conclusions are quite a contribution on the recreational front! ;-) "Authored by: PJ on Monday, October 12 2009 @ 07:56 PM EDT Once the license is first saled away, then what stops you from putting a new license on it? Say, a Microsoft license? From that point onward, you can get rid of the second license by first sale, etc., rinse and repeat. See why I think the Autodesk decision is wrongly decided?" "Authored by: PJ on Monday, October 12 2009 @ 07:58 PM EDT He said it was a sale, not a license, because there was no requirement to give back the old CDs when you were done. So the license goes poof. " "Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 12:40 AM EDT You are missing the legal dance being proposed. If first sale trumps the license, there is no GPL any more, and so the GPL doesn't say anything or require anything. It's over. " Ha ha. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss