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There is a potential (perhaps small) for this to backfire spectacularly for the SF Conservancy. Here is the scenario. Trump doesn’t comply even after the lette
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
There is a potential (perhaps small) for this to backfire spectacularly for the SF Conservancy.
Here is the scenario. Trump doesn’t comply even after the letter. The SF Conservancy files a lawsuit. It goes to court, and Trump loses. It keeps getting appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court (1/3 of whom were appointed by Trump) rules that copyleft licenses are unenforceable.
GPL, AFGPL dead.
- blitzar 5y agoYeah but then hollywood dead, music industry dead, patents dead, industry dead. America dead. Aint gonna happen.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y agoHow would ending copyleft license hurt Hollywood? I am not talking about copyright, which you are correct would be massively disruptive. I am talking about copyleft such as GPL, etc which as far as I know have never been really tested in a US court of law.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoYou may not like all the decisions the Supreme Court makes, but those three justices are not Trump's puppets. And even if they were, then the decision should still be 6-3 against Trump. So I think your scenario is pretty much dead.
- r00fus 5y agoThis is extremely unlikely. Copyleft intrinsically hinges copyright. More likely, if there was some judge that ruled against this case they'd carve out something in the specific scenario here rather than GPL/copyleft in general - that would open up too many cans of worms.