Static v. Dynamic Linking -- redux
Russell Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Mar 16 05:51:16 UTC 2002
Emiliano writes:
> I am totally uneducated in the matters of license legalities, but is it
> actually illegal to circumvent a license? If the wording of the license
> allows a particular use, will the court read the letter of the license
> or the spirit of the license?
In my admittedly limited experience, it's a bad idea for the plaintiff
to give the the judge the impression that the plaintiff thinks the
judge won't see through his scheme. Judges have a lot of discretion
when it comes to contempt of court.
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