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Going to court and losing, while not fun, should be instructive to the GPL community. A loss will either point out areas that need to be changed in the next GPL
by databus 10y ago
Going to court and losing, while not fun, should be instructive to the GPL community. A loss will either point out areas that need to be changed in the next GPL license version, or that a GPL-style license is not viable.
- AstralStorm 10y agoOr that lawyers in that country are terrible?
- desdiv 10y agoYes, it could prove helpful to the GPL community, but it might prove harmful to the kernel community. For all intents and purposes, the Linux kernel is permanently stuck in GPLv2. If a disastrous court case somehow weakens GPLv2 and a new and improved GPLv4 which fixes that weakness comes out, the kernel will be stuck with the now weakened GPLv2.