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Re: SFLC chooses wrong court
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: SFLC chooses wrong court |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:24:42 +0200 |
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:58:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Rui writes:
> > > No, the SFLC is suing Monsoon Multimedia for copyright violation.
> >
> > Actually the copyright owners are suing. SFLC is representing them in
> > court.
>
> Yes, to be precise.
>
> It appears, though, that the twin personality of rjack/therekov has lost,
> once again...
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8810451705.html
Lost what, mini-RMS?
First off, OP in this thread said
"The SFLC is using threats of copyright infringement prosecution
under the GPL as a tactical matter to force Monsoon Multimedia to
comply with a contractual covenant.The SFLC will never allow a
federal court to examine the GPL on its merits.
If the suit goes forward (which I seriously doubt)"
Next, the exact language of Monsoon Multimedia's "admission" isn't quite
that colorful.
"SAN MATEO, Calif. September 21, 2007 Monsoon Multimedia today
announced efforts to fully comply with the GNU General Public License
(GPL). Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve
the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software
license requirements. Monsoon will make modified BusyBox source code
publicly available on the company web-site at www.myhava.com in the
coming weeks.
"Since we intend to and always intended to comply with all open
source software license requirements, we are confident that the
matter will be quickly resolved, said Graham Radstone, Chairman and
Chief Operating Officer at Monsoon Multimedia."
IOW, they're ready to comply with contractual covenant regarding
making BusyBox code available. Compliance with a contract is almost
always voluntary -- if you choose not to comply, then you don't have
to. You merely have to compensate the non-breaching party for his
expectancy interest.
Finally, let's wait and see what turns out from settlement
negotiations...
regards,
alexander.
--
"The revolution might take significantly longer than anticipated."
-- The GNU Monk Harald Welte
- SFLC chooses wrong court, rjack, 2007/09/23
- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Rahul Dhesi, 2007/09/23
- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2007/09/23
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- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, John Hasler, 2007/09/23
- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/09/24
- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2007/09/24
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- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2007/09/25
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- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/09/25
- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2007/09/25
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- Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, rjack, 2007/09/26
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Re: SFLC chooses wrong court, Bruce Lewis, 2007/09/27