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Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:40:05 +0100
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"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:

> "Rahul Dhesi" <c.c.eiftj@XReXXCopyr.usenet.us.com> wrote in message
> news:gnnqah$gv6$1@blue.rahul.net...
>> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>>
>>>I don't suggest that enforcement itself is the problem, it is the
>>>enforcement of meaningless requirements....
>>
>> The CAFC has ruled that these requirements are not meaningless.
>> -- 
> They suggested that the requirements were not meaningless to the
> copyright holders who get a thrill out of seeing their name in print,

You are confused.  The BSD license is about "copyright holders who get a
thrill out of seeing their name in print".  The GPL license is about
copyright holders who get a thrill out of seeing other contributions in
code.

> but that is meaningless to me.

Laws don't depend on you seeing a meaning in them.

> I think that it speaks ill of those egomaniacs who want to create such
> a ruckus just so that the world might see how smart they are.
> Pathetic.

Pathetic is not the worst description of your self-contradictory
ill-informed ill-judged postings.

-- 
David Kastrup


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