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Examining an attack on the GPL
Examining an attack on the GPL
Posted Nov 25, 2003 1:22 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151)In reply to: Examining an attack on the GPL by josh_stern
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No 100 % compelling reason. BUT, one might argue that the nature of GPL makes the
argument much much easier to force code opening as a way of remedying damages. No
need to motivate it first ... it's already right there.
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Examining an attack on the GPL
Posted Nov 26, 2003 16:29 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link]
What the company with proprietary code and a court would care about is the overall monetary value of any awarded damages. Courts don't work like interior decorators and just award damages willy-nilly based on a coordinating "theme".