Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
t really something that the involved parties can take into account when settling. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
depend only on facts, not > presentation. Courts have no direct input device for facts. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > RJack wrote: >> >> >> >> RJack wrote: >> >> >> >> PACER: >> >> SFLC just voluntarily dismissed GCI Technologie

Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa! > > > ROFL. What took them so long? -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
> Yeah... except there's no right to authorize others to authorize. Huh? Every transferable right can be passed to others. That includes copyright, but not authorship. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
asily threaten your "standard of living" even without legal costs. The system has a problem when a favorable decision can threaten your standard of living. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
well as by > statutory and case law. > === > > This is not standard boilerplate language. You might slap it on a boilerplate of something going to the scrapyard. It's a silly and/or desperate defense. -- David Kastrup __

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
r since anybody can be taken to court by anybody over whatever claim regardless how silly. What the court decides to do in consequence is a different matter. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
to make use of the privileges granted to a party (namely a licensee), he needs to keep the conditions for becoming so. It is his choice. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
es_ apply, and you are not bound by the terms of the GPL. If you, however, make use of the GPL, you become a party of the license agreement. In that case, the Supreme Court ruling concerning non-parties does no longer apply, and you _are_, as a party, bound by the license t

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> RJack writes: >> >>> That's a really brilliant tautology. "If I never use the GPL then >>> the Supreme Court ruling doesn't apply"! Clever. Really clever. >> >> You are getting this backw

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
it for the results of the case. If the plaintiff lack standing, there will be no reason for the defendants to make the respective sources available under the GPL. Nor will there be any reason for them to merely pretend doing so, as some of our more desperate trolls claim to consider likel

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
haser agree a priori not to exercise his rights. But if a copy of a work is acquired with permission of the author, short of any contractual restriction that the recipient explicitly signifies agreement with, the author has no say in the default provisions of copyright. -- David Kastrup __

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
restrict sublicensing to identical terms. That BSD license fans get all green in the face when their works get relicensed under copyleft licenses is supposed to be a _moral_ storm of indignation, not a legal one. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discus

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >>> David Kastrup wrote: [...] >>>> BSDL licensed material does not restrict sublicensing to identical >>>> terms. >>> >>> "Absent an explicit grant of

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ot; Not really. Darwin may be, but all the graphical folderol running on it is rather descended (or written new) from older MacOS code not based on BSD. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ect to the original copyright. That's different from patents. That might help your confusion. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Vereinbarung". But such a "Vereinbarung" is spelled out in the license in question. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> You are confused. If I am the owner of a horse, I can authorize someone >> else to sell it, even though ownership gives _me_ the exclusive right. >> >> The whole point of authorization is to enable som

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
prohibit adding additional conditions for further redistribution and copying of new portions, even when those cover the resulting whole. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> > http://www.lehrer-online.de/dyn/bin/366209-369076-1-uebertragung_von_nutzungsrechten.pdf >> > >> > "Inhabern ausschließlicher Nutzungsrechte vorbehalten >> > >> > Die Einräu

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> > Under the German copyright act ONLY EXCLUSIVE LICENSEES CAN >> > SUBLICENSE. >> >> Wrong. You still don't get it. Exclusive licensees _automatically_ >> receive the right to su

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
quot;(1) Der Inhaber eines ausschließlichen Nutzungsrechts kann weitere > Nutzungsrechte nur mit Zustimmung des Urhebers einräumen. " "additional usage rights". And the "Urheber" (author) has in the case in question granted his "Zustim

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> > 2) Copyright law seems even in the US holds that nonexclusive licenses >> > are clearly indivisible and do not automatically grant sublicense >> > rights (a sublicense being a new license issued by a l

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > RJack wrote: >> > [...] >> >> Substitute the words "tranfer of contractual interest" for "sub-license" >> >> so that

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
atibility. Yes, it is known that, for example, BSDL with advertising clause is GPL incompatible. That was one motivator for them to drop this clause eventually. So sure: you can't take any BSDL style licensed stuff and integrate it into work you distribute under the GPL. It depends on th

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> >> > Dak boy is having a problem understanding § 35 Abs. 1 Satz 1 UrhG: >> >> > >> >> > http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__35.html >> >> > (§ 35 Einräumu

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ons, as long as I _myself_ adhere to the BSD licensing conditions. > You can't make up your own copyright law -- the federal courts will > refuse to enforce it. I don't need to. That you pretend not to understand BSD licensing does not mean that the courts don't. -- Davi

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> BSDL licensed material does not restrict sublicensing to identical >> terms. > > It doesn't permit sublicensing at all you retard dak. > > http://books.google.de/books?id=OCGsutgMdPIC&pg=SA4-PA4

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
as a whole" are hard to press when the material they cover is functionally a drop-in replacement of existing non-free libraries. That makes "mere aggregation" a really good defense. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ays. > In the instant case Erik Andersen wasn't even the original author of > BusyBox v.0.60.3. Why then would defendant settle and publish? -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Hyman Rosen writes: > On 3/25/2010 10:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Licenses covering a work "as a whole" are hard to press >> when the material they cover is functionally a drop-in >> replacement of existing non-free libraries. That makes >> "mere ag

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
versions for the API versioning. It is a quite special case to explicitly load a shared executable (and call its entry points) for which not particular headers were used in the preparation of the binary. I do not even know the library/system call for that. -- David Kastrup

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
libraries. Correction: for equivalents to already existing established libraries. And the problem is not "poor fit", but "incentive for change". > Renaming it to the Lesser GPL isn't likely to convince anyone old > enough to remember, or intelligent enough to d

Re: Mining the Blogosphere

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
sponse other than profanity. > > One man's profanity is another man's prayer Hyman. You have strange gods. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Mining the Blogosphere

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
rumpet of doom. After a few years of that, the excitement wears off a bit. > I wonder how the Blogosphere will react to the death of "copyleft". I recommend learning the use of the subjunctive mode when you are spilling one of your wet fantasies. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> RJack writes: >> >>> I have been poking around in the source code for BusyBox, v.0.60.3. >>> and unsurprisingly most every thing in the those command line >>> utilities are substantially similar to the old BSD4.4-

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Hyman Rosen writes: > On 3/25/2010 11:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> It would appear that you are not familiar with the realities of dynamic >> linking on UNIX-like operating systems. Dynamically linked libraries >> (we are not talking about Windows DLLs here) are ca

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> > (Intellectual Property Licensing: Forms and Analysis) >> > >> > "Absent an explicit grant of sublicensing rights, no right to sublicense >> > is generally presumed.5 ... 5 Raufast SA v

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
is part back. What changes is not the rights to the copyrightable work (those remain with the author), but whether it legally constitutes an integral part of a larger whole or not. When it can be usefully combined with different other parts, this is definitely not t

Re: GPL misappropriation

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
e original copyright attributions remain intact. Of course, when doing so, you can only (successfully) claim copyright violation for those parts which were written/modified by you. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Nicolas Neuss writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> It does not get you "anything additional", but it gets you something >> _less_: a proprietary product that uses your own code to draw your >> user base away from you. > > This is quite understandable -

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
rld in which Richard Stallman was pretty much wrong about everything, too. But one has to make the best from what one actually got. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Hyman Rosen writes: > On 3/25/2010 2:21 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Hyman Rosen writes: >> >>> On 3/25/2010 1:49 PM, Hyman Rosen wrote: >>>> it cannot possibly be correct under copyright law for the >>>> rights to a work to change by the creation

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> The whole point of the GPL as a license rather than a contract is > > Dak, please stop ignoring the facts: > > It's established by several courts in Germany that the GPL is an AGB > contract. > >

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > David Kastrup wrote: >> > [...] >> >> The whole point of the GPL as a license rather than a contract is >> > >> > Dak, please sto

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> >> >> > David Kastrup wrote: >>

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> You did not understand a word of what you were replying to, again. The >> whole point was that in the case of a _license_, as opposed to a >> contract, any such stipulation of a _penalty_ is _invalid_, and _on

Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ting at Windmills. Even a dysfunctional mind is a terrible thing to > waste. So why are you wasting away in that manner? -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SCO moronic loss in Novell suit

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
e to annoy the judge enough to cause him to omit dotting one i, pop, there goes the next round of appeal. They'll manage to burn through all money until they have to declare bankruptcy. Wait, they already did. And they _still_ manage to keep burning through their creditors' money. They r

Re: SCO moronic loss in Novell suit

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
by meeting the respective conditions. But he is also free to chuck it in the bin and act like he never received it in the first place. That's one of its main points. It is also one of the main distractions anti-GPL cranks tend to shout about in misleading ways. -- David Kastrup ___

Re: Samsung's answer to SFLC gang

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
even having first contact with the court. If their legal views were that unclouded, they would have avoided having the matter of compliance move to a court in the first place. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: [LOL] Hey Alan, Pee Jay's mind is going to explode soon

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
prehensibility would actually benefit his goals. Whether he realizes that is a different question. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: [LOL] Hey Alan, Pee Jay's mind is going to explode soon

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ch for "Terekhov", silly Hyman. >> >> The point of communication is to communicate. > > Here's the communication: STOP BEING UTTER IDIOT HYMAN! I don't see him attempting to compete with you in that area. -- David Kastrup __

Re: [LOL] Hey Alan, Pee Jay's mind is going to explode soon

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/8/2010 12:53 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >> >> > Uh idiot Hyman... >> >> > For i

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
sion under the same protection and licensing. Copyright protection does not go away by changing a few lines, regardless of _who_ changed the lines. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: [LOL] Hey Alan, Pee Jay's mind is going to explode soon

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
; intercede? There are a lot of death warrants being signed for free software, not least of all in this group. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
issal. There is no way Best Buy Inc. will > stipulate to dismiss without their counterclaim for a declaratory > judgement being granted. The SFLC has finally had their bluff called > by several defendants. Yes, the same fairy tale as before. They'll crawl back into their hole and by

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
o-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ion, and I consider it likely that a "promise not to sue" would be considered invalid by courts: the whole point of a contractual relation is putting something on a legal footing, and letting a court check whether the conditions for a "promise not t

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > > [... Pee Jays therom ...] > >> a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do > > What part of YOU INDICATE ACCEPTANCE don't you understand retard dak? > ACCEPTANCE is a contract thi

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ndants try making an exhaustive list of conceivable theories (even conflicting ones) for why a complaint should be held invalid. They need just a single hit to be relieved from compliance. So what does it tell us when they choose to comply after all (a

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >>> Hyman Rosen wrote: >>>> On 4/9/2010 12:12 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >>>>> http://www.bitlaw.com/source/17usc/109.html >>>> The First Sale doctrine ha

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Hadron writes: > Alexander Terekhov writes: > >> David Kastrup wrote: >> [...] >>> just a single hit to be relieved from compliance. So what does it tell >>> us when they choose to comply after all (as they have consistently ended >>

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> Why would they make the source code available without necessity? Out of >> court settlements are private. But the results speak for themselves. > > Like > > http://download.com

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> Comply with a small number of clearly spelled out conditions, and you >> are fine, breach, and you are in trouble. It's not a particularly hard >> concept unless you are a troll. > > Samsung (several

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
binary version available, not anything else. That's been the state of affairs from the start. That you keep getting confused in different manners does not "move the goalposts". -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
same people under the same conditions, exact version matching appears pointless. Sufficient amounts of matching code should do the trick. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
u can't come into compliance by putting up some arbitrary source. Even if it happens that this arbitrary source is the one for which the copyright has been registered. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> You can't come into compliance by putting up some arbitrary source. > > A source to what exactly do you want, idiot dak. Since I have not acquired any binaries, there is nothing for me to want. And that the defe

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > David Kastrup wrote: >> > [...] >> >> You can't come into compliance by putting up some arbitrary source. >> > >> > A source to

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
natics with an agenda, unless they are talking politics. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ot;. It demands access to versions _corresponding_ to the binaries. The registration shows material for which infringement is claimed. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
pyright for the light arrangement of the Eiffel tower. I am not joking. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> Yup. That's what makes the GPL relevant if you want to copy or >> distribute when you have no other permission from the rights holder. > > "As a separate and distinct Twelfth Affirmative Defense a

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ar like that, we'll have the case thrown out of court without defendants getting into compliance, in no time at all. Really, you _have_ to stop confusing either party's claims with the verdict. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
nt rules than that of software licensed as isolated pieces. "Defeating gravity by stacking bricks" would be a similar title. Only an utter moron would consider a title like that as a proposal for antigravity devices. > Yes, appears like a bunch

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> The GPL legally establishes a heterogenuos pool of software. > > Hey dak, how come that the FSF claimed in court that the GPL is NOT A > POOLING LICENSE (and is merely "a vertical agreement between the >

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> That's actually why the FSF has to get copyright assignments for >> "strategically important" software: they can't just reimport GPLed > > According to the FSF itself, the FSF uses copy

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
y > (misuse, antitrust, and all that). That sort of handwaving waffle got Wallace thrown out of court for failure to state a claim. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov writes: >> >> > Correct statement is >> > >> >The GPL *ILLEGALLY* purports to establishes a pool of software >> > >> > because the GPL purports to

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >> How about moving the goalpost in your head from that lie? The GPL >> does not demand access to the source code of "registered >> versions". It demands access to versions _corresponding_ to the >> binaries. T

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> That sort of handwaving waffle got Wallace thrown out of court for >> failure to state a claim. > > Wallace's case was dismissed because Chief Judge Eaterbrook is of > opinion that > > *** FOSS

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >>>> The GPL legally establishes a heterogenuos pool of software. > > The GPL legally establishes a heterogeneous pool of whacked out, > delusional nut-jobs. You are not that hetero

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] > >> You really have to beat your habit of quoting attempted defenses as if >> they were of any legal importance. > > Samsung (calling SFLC): Wow, now you are quoting imagined sneers. Talk about an improv

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ite hard to figure out a deceptively suggested promise that a defendant could claim to have relied on. The GPL is very clear in its conditions, permissions and implications. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
The infringed work is "BusyBox". > > Yup. And because you say it is, Because the complained says it is. > black is white and up is down. (In the land of GNU) It is not clear what kind of land you need in order to stop imagining moving goal posts. -- David Kastrup

Re: SFLC is SOL

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ed IP licensing and litigation matters". Well, _you_ are spending a great deal of time on that, too, and look what kind of nonsense we get out of that. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
s. It does not seem like he has anything left to do for which people would remember him favorably. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
mplicit in a nonexclusive copyright license is the promise not to sue > for copyright infringement. A promise to licensees availing themselves of the license. Without any attempt to honor the license conditions, it's for the court to determine whether to consider the defendant as an unrelated

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
to do so. Compliance with license/contract obligations is > almost always voluntary -- if you choose not to comply, then you don't > have to. You merely have to compensate the non-breaching party for his > expectancy interest. Hint: damages. That's the case with a contract.

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> A promise to licensees availing themselves of the license. Without any > > Uh retard dak. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > > "by [blah-blah], you indicate your acceptance of this Licens

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> if you choose not to comply with >> licensing conditions, the license just does not apply. > > I'm just curious, what "automatically terminate" does >

Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
ged to be infringing were, therefore, lawfully made. " You really have to stop confusing the arguments of either party as being legally relevant before the court says so. -- David Kastrup ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Time to put up or shut up!

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
tually distribute. Now what if downstream decides to redistribute under different conditions, in violation of the license? Are _you_ then responsible to make downstream _heed_ the license, by suing for compliance? I guess this fuzziness is what made that particular clause not survive into GPLv3.

Re: Time to put up or shut up!

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
infringement. The >> performance by the licensee is to copy and distribute in compliance >> with the GPL. There is no partial performance. > > Ah! I know what! Let's just deny everything and mooove > the goalposts!

Re: Time to put up or shut up!

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
robable they are), your "perfectly fine" thesis seems quite shaky. So far you are batting zero in that respect, for all the years of your trumpeting around here. That's not all that close to "perfect" unless you are living in a fantasy world. -- David Kastrup

Re: Time to put up or shut up!

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> you are living in a fantasy world. > > *You* are living in a fantasy world (where copyright licenses are not > contracts and etc. GNU moronity), silly dak. Since you are the one batting zero in the real world, I a

Re: The SFLC has pleaded their clients right out of court

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
he plaintiffs lack Article III standing. And when your prediction does not come true, like always, what will you then do? Just silently go away? Bluster about how wrong the court must be and/or how wrong the defendants to come into compliance and not revert to a higher court?

Re: Time to put up or shut up!

2010-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
o a newer version of the source. It has to be pointed out that the owners of old routers have the right to the _corresponding_ source to _their_ routers as well. No idea about the distribution structure of Verizon/Actiontec. Could be that they are having compliance problems again right

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