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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: law question
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 02:12:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877djrbp90.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-db880f65-1011-4168-867f-fc37386046ab-1621641411465@3c-app-mailcom-bs04

Christopher Dimech wrote:

> The GPL was found to be an enforceable set of copyright
> terms (a license) in Jacobsen v. Katzer. What has changed
> now is that for the purposes of the court, the GPL is both
> a license, which can be enforced through a claim of
> copyright infringement, and a contract, which can be
> enforced through a claim of breach of contract (Artifex v.
> Hancom). You can allege both in your court claim in a single
> case, and fall back on one if you can’t prove the other.
> Thus, the potential to enforce the GPL in court is
> very strong.

Case closed! :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-22  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21 20:59 law question Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 21:09 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-21 21:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-21 21:21   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 21:30     ` Jean Louis
2021-05-21 21:37       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 21:46     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-21 23:15       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 23:31         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-21 23:56         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22  0:12           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-21 22:34     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22  6:14       ` Eli Zaretskii

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