conducting a sane and efficient GPLv3, LGPLv3 Review

Zak Greant zak at greant.com
Wed Aug 1 19:54:38 UTC 2007


Greetings Larry, Aloha All,

>> Just that the disagreement between Larry and most other people is of
>> long standing and unlikely to go away, but has hitherto been of  
>> little
>> practical effect.
>
> Disagreement with "most other people"? Hogwash! As I gather from my
> conversations with many other attorneys, most other people think  
> FSF and
> SFLC are wrong on the legal issue of combining GPL software in  
> collective
> works with other works. I will admit that this disagreement "has  
> been of
> little practical effect," but this is at least partly because some  
> people on
> this list and elsewhere make general statements like yours with  
> little basis
> in law or fact.

Please cite relevant published opinions and cases, not "conversations  
with many other attorneys."

Cheers!
--zak



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