Re: [PHP-DEV] Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 01/15/01

Not really - the FSF has very strong power outside the court - the power of
the public opinion. When someone is portrayed in 'Good vs. Evil' (GNU vs.
put_your_name_here), then things beyond legal basis come into the
picture. It doesn't change the fact that the GPL is a very vague legal
document, which is essentially why people always say the GPL is 'what
Richard Stallman says it is'.

Zeev

At 01:41 16/1/2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
>Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK the GPL never made it into court. Apparently it's way too vague to
> > be useful anyway.
>
>AFAIK every serious issue with it (like Objective C) has been resolved
>out
>of court yet, and it wasn't the FSF that had to give in in all of theese
>cases
>so it _could_ be that it's not to vague but the other way round ...
>
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