softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Ciaran O'Riordan
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now read > > http://www.usfca.edu/law/determann/softwarecombinations060403.pdf I just skimmed it. I didn't find what the author is trying to prove, but I know that most of your mails about the GPL are claims that it isn't enforceable or doesn't

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Stop shifting the burden of proof, GNUtian ciaran. Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now read > > > > http://www.usfca.edu/law/determann/softwarecombinations060403.pdf > > I just skimmed it. > > I didn't find what the author is trying to prove, but I

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: > It's up to the FSF/SFLC to proof their belief. Thus far, all that > we've seen is just a bunch of moronic complaints warranting automatic > dismissal AND which were dismissed automatically by the SFLC. The plaintiffs have to prove their beliefs only to the extent that

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > It's up to the FSF/SFLC to proof their belief. Thus far, all that > > we've seen is just a bunch of moronic complaints warranting automatic > > dismissal AND which were dismissed automatically by the SFLC. > > The plaintiffs have to prove t

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: > It's up to the FSF/SFLC to proof their belief. > Hyman Rosen wrote: The plaintiffs have to prove their beliefs only to the extent that the defendants challenge them. According to Hyman if I sue him and shortly dismiss the complaint prior ... then I'm surely has prov

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > Even in the Verizon case, on the page to which you always point, > , the actual > URL for the firmware download is >

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: What are you talking about Hyman? There's no redirection involved with that URL. It yield binary file directly from download.verizon.net host. It's a URL. You don't know what Verizon's web server does with it. ___ gnu-misc-di

Re: softwarecombinations paper Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ciaran O'Riordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FSF's position, IIRC, IANAL, is that being a derived work is something that > is decided based on the author's actions and intentions at the time of > writing the software - not at the later times of someone running or l