Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dell vs. GPL | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 30 Jun 2003 18:45:57 +0900 |
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Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes: > When they tell you they will not open a case on your behalf until a > registered copyright is in hand, that point real hard.
Ok whatever, but what I don't understand is your comment that:
> GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets > serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source.
The `copyright registration' requirements, whatever they are, would seem to apply equally to the GPL and whatever other `OSL' you have, so why on earth would some court loss related to copyright registration have any effect on what license people choose?
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