OLS: Enforcing the GPL [LWN.net]

OLS: Enforcing the GPL

Posted Jul 25, 2004 4:40 UTC (Sun) by set (guest, #4788)
In reply to: OLS: Enforcing the GPL by stockholm
Parent article: OLS: Enforcing the GPL

Harald is enforcing his copyright, which is the the whole underpinning
of the GPL. You can whinge about 'what *we* should do, or what is
better for *us*', but it is the copyright holders who get to make these
kinds of decisions about the license they chose for the software *they*
wrote. And I say good for Harald; businesses need to know that the GPL
is a real license and unless they follow it, they cannnot distribute.
Let them use BSD or similarly licensed code if they dont want to.

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OLS: Enforcing the GPL

Posted Jul 30, 2004 15:47 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Indeed. And while clearly this is not legal precedent anywhere in the US, if he succeeds -- excuse me: when he succeeds :-) -- it will certainly stand as *business* precedent, which isn't quite the same thing.