Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

Posted Mar 3, 2004 20:13 UTC (Wed) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement by eru
Parent article: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

GPL doesn't need to be tested in court. It goes like this:

"You're using our copyrighted works, have you a license?"
-> No, we're violating your copyright
-> Yes, it's GPL

"Are you complying with it?"
-> No (i.e. their license is not valid and again they're violating the copyright)
-> Yes, we're complying with it

Case closed.

It's in *defendent*'s best interests to argue that GPL is a valid license, otherwise they would be in copyright violation.

See Eben Moglen's excellent article on What's Free:
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html

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