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Re: More FSF hypocrisy


From: Rjack
Subject: Re: More FSF hypocrisy
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:25:47 -0400
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
Rjack wrote:
There goooooooooooooooooooooooes the goalposts. Claiming that a
 contractual COVENANT is a CONDITION will get you nowhere on
Usenet or in court:

No, it succeeds in court: <http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf> The clear
language of the Artistic License creates conditions to protect
the economic rights at issue in the granting of a public license.
These conditions govern the rights to modify and distribute the
computer programs and files included in the downloadable software
 package. ... Having determined that the terms of the Artistic
License are enforceable copyright conditions, we remand

There weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent the goalposts.

Having determined that the GPL is the Artistic License isn't just
moooooooooooooooving the goalposts, it's cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutting
them down.


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