> In any case, he may be right, and the FSF, Trolltech, and you could all > be wrong. Your intention when you use the GPL may be moot if a judge > determines that the text itself and copyright law does not support your > interpretation.
I'm sorry to jump into this thread without any knowledge of these issues. I was just wondering if it did happen. Did some law court, over the past decade, had to make a decision about GPL on some real issue ? Thank you Francis Girard Le mardi 8 Février 2005 05:17, Robert Kern a écrit : > Grant Edwards wrote: > > Sorry if I was a bit blunt, but I'm sick of people trying to > > weasle their way around a license by creative interpretation of > > the license terms when the licensors made their intentions as > > clear as possible. > > Believe me, I share your frustration every time this issue comes up. > However, I think it's best to follow Robert Heinlein's maxim: > > "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > stupidity." > > And I think we can also replace the word "stupidity" with "ignorance" if > you like. > > It seems to me that "Luke" is confused and ignorant. He has shown no > indication that he intends to write proprietary software using Qt. > > In any case, he may be right, and the FSF, Trolltech, and you could all > be wrong. Your intention when you use the GPL may be moot if a judge > determines that the text itself and copyright law does not support your > interpretation. > > I think that it is almost always best to obey the intentions of the > copyright holder and to ask for clarification when it is unclear. On the > other hand, if the copyright holder is *clearly* off-base with his > interpretation (and to me this would require actual case law, not just > the opinion of a lawyer), then I might consider disregarding the > author's interpretation and going with what case law and my lawyer > suggests. I don't believe that this situation holds with respect to this > issue, of course. > > -- > Robert Kern > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high > Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." > -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
