Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
s Melville Nimmer. The treatise is continued by his son, David, a fine lawyer with whom I do from time to time politely disagree about something. Ray Nimmer is quite another person. Eben -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia Law School f: 21

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
s Melville Nimmer. The treatise is continued by his son, David, a fine lawyer with whom I do from time to time politely disagree about something. Ray Nimmer is quite another person. Eben -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia Law School f: 21

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
On Friday, 26 October 2018, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Eben Moglen : > reputational damage is *specifically* recognized as grounds for relief. > > No. Reputational damage is not mentioned at all, let alone > specifically recognized. I have no difficulty in find

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
On Friday, 26 October 2018, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Eben Moglen : > reputational damage is *specifically* recognized as grounds for relief. > > No. Reputational damage is not mentioned at all, let alone > specifically recognized. I have no difficulty in find

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
is said. But the key point is that the "rule against perpetuities" is not a rule against perpetuities. The confusion on this point is one of the clearest signs that the writer or writers using various pseudonyms is/are not, whatever s/he claims, a US or UK lawyer at all. Eben -- Eben Mogle

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
is said. But the key point is that the "rule against perpetuities" is not a rule against perpetuities. The confusion on this point is one of the clearest signs that the writer or writers using various pseudonyms is/are not, whatever s/he claims, a US or UK lawyer at all. Eben -- Eben Mogle

Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Eben Moglen
mplete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping. -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia Law School f: 212-580-0898 moglen@ Founding Director, Software Freedom Law Centercol

Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Eben Moglen
nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping. -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia Law School f: 212-580-0898 moglen@ Founding Director, Software Freedom Law Centercolumbia.edu 1995 Broadway (68th Street), fl