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CopyrightCopyrightPosted Nov 3, 2007 1:00 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Copyright by drag Parent article: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled
if ... the GPL is invalid I don't think the adjective "invalid" has any legal meaning with respect to a copyright license. But it may be that a particular condition of the license is null and therefore the license exists without the licensee having to meet that condition. I don't know much about copyright licenses, but I know in contracts it is not uncommon for the law to remove a clause and the rest of the contract still stands. The debate I've heard isn't over whether the license or any part of it is invalid -- it's over what the conditions described in the license actually are. In a particular case, one person believes it is a condition of the license that a particular piece of source code be distributed, while another person believes there is no such condition. That's what would be nice to have a judgment on.
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