Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:49 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture Message-ID: <CAGBxaXn-k2gjppVwAA=P93n4So_GsoW0zAcgC4cv1fa_W-oFGw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200419234351.GA88082@neutralgood.org> References: <CAGBxaXmvde89R%2BREcup9PEV6SAzQAitwHn9og92uz51GYpu%2B%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAEJNuHwewpssL-t49D9pLYWNqYqwAzx4bE2eQdtow05=E9UY5Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmvaNtiFZiza_fGrHzWAcMp64d_NWstwvvVvQ959oGWHQ@mail.gmail.com> <681077991.2278153.1587146552233@mail.yahoo.com> <CAGBxaXkMQf9Gs2bujJZjR0Gcv3nyig_FgcGc8m8282fB8_e_Xg@mail.gmail.com> <20200417213025.16ba5877.freebsd@edvax.de> <1659102270.119843446.1587168373188.JavaMail.zimbra@shaw.ca> <CAGBxaXnNMchVfrVXDkNyBuO0YiQ2%2BJm0cefu6A80YgroPTnwLQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200418092801.20d10f5b@archlinux> <CAGBxaX=4=yx-xSo0gdsVgAoA7fUn8oRq3173covquHNw61kBJQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200419234351.GA88082@neutralgood.org>
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:44 PM Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 09:31:30AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Thus I suspect if push came to shove in a legal fight about the legality > of > > GPL forcing third parties that just happen to use a GPL'ed project to > give > > up all claims over how their work is used would likely unconstitutional. > > US courts generally prefer to make narrower decisions, and if a case can > be settled without answering constitutional questions then that's probably > what the court would do. I seriously doubt a court would say anything at > all about the constitutionality of the GPL. > Of course they would likely use normal copyright law but the constitution is why IP law is federal but contract law is state. > > FSF knows this and that is why they highly recommends you to assign all > > intellectual property rights to FSF and/or the original author. > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#AssignCopyright > > I'm not going to waste time on that page. I'll just throw this in: > > One can only fight in court if one has "standing". The FSF has no standing > to fight in court over violations of the license on code that, for example, > I wrote. To establish standing the FSF needs something like holding the > rights themselves. There standing is obvious if the agreement is found to be null and void in one case then it is likely weaken any claims any other user of the license makes (including FSF) thus if it was a class action suit then it is more then certain they would be included in the injured class. Also since the license it self is copyrighted by FSF any violations of it would be copyright infringement on the license it self (since the license is required to be included with any code you right). So showing standing is trivial. If you had read the page that you purposely skipped you would see they make roughly the same argument and even though a federal judge interpreting state law declared in a non-UCC state that GPL was a contract they also said that FSF had defacto standing in all cases involving GPL. https://perens.com/2017/05/28/understanding-the-gpl-is-a-contract-court-case/
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