[RFC] Serious Open Source (SOS) License -- Injunctive Relief clause

wtfpl user wtfpl.user at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 16 22:01:52 UTC 2009


Other than a suggestion to shutdown discussion do you have any
substance to contribute regarding the question asked?

2009/3/16 Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>:
> WTFPL User wrote:
>> I didn't ask for approval. The subject of this [RFC] inquiry is much
>> more narrow: what do you folks think about a reciprocal open source
>> license with a pretty standard contractual injunctive relief clause.
>> To repeat: the idea is to create a license in which licensee's
>> distributees are intended Third Party Beneficiaries with contractual
>> right to have access to source code provided by licensee so that a
>> breach or threatened breach/attempt to deny that contractual right can
>> be easily stopped by injunction/specific performance.
>
> If you are expecting any useful legal opinions about third party
> beneficiaries, injunctive relief, specific performance, and other
> contractual law issues, forget about getting it here. Go to law school. It
> may be worth the tuition for you.
>
> This is not to say those aren't interesting topics for the lawyers and
> near-lawyers on this list, but most of us won't waste time with vague
> hypothetical puzzles leading nowhere. This is license-review, not "let's
> talk about stuff...."
>
> /Larry



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