Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
n authority) was Melville Nimmer. The treatise is continued by his son, David, a fine lawyer with whom I do from time to time politely disagree about something. Ray Nimmer is quite another person. Eben -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia La

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
On Friday, 26 October 2018, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Eben Moglen : > reputational damage is *specifically* recognized as grounds for relief. > > No. Reputational damage is not mentioned at all, let alone > specifically recognized. I have no difficulty in find

Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

2018-10-26 Thread Eben Moglen
ure interests is seriously considered), more is said. But the key point is that the "rule against perpetuities" is not a rule against perpetuities. The confusion on this point is one of the clearest signs that the writer or writers using various pseudonyms is/are not, whatever s/he claims, a U

Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Eben Moglen
tatements until the work is complete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping. -- Eben Moglenv: 212-461-1901 Professor of Law, Columbia Law School f: 212-580-0898 moglen@ Founding Director, Software Fre