MPL Beta 1

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Dec 7 16:25:50 UTC 2010


Alexander Terekhov scripsit:

> ***) "The rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically if You
> fail to comply with any terms herein. "
> 
> US Courts disagree.
> 
> http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=fedclaim&vol=1999/97476c
> 
> "In addition, prior to the filing of the infringement suit, RT Graphics
> never took affirmative steps to terminate the license which it had
> granted. 

This may or may not be on all fours, because we don't know if the license
in question contained explicit words of recission.  My guess would be that
it did not.

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