On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:33:40 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > Google "GPLv3 court case". There are no applicable results. Until a Judge > decides what the license truly means everyone using it is at risk. > > As you've already been told it's not English it's Law
I assume that there's not just one case neccessary (to be carried out to the end): What about countries with different jurisdiction? For example, Germany doesn't have "precedence law" as it is very famous in the USA. Given basically the same situations, two judges can decide differently. Cases only have effect on the parties who fight there - except very few cases where decisions "get promoted to level of law", it doesn't mean anything to others. And that's just within Germany. How about different countries? Does a case (e. g. M. S. Bob vs. R. M. Stallman) have any effect outside the USA? I am not a lawyer, but because I have some legal knowledge I know for sure that "what's written in the law" and "how law is practiced in reality" does very much differ, in unpredictable and volatile. So I don't make any claims here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
