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* Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> [2012-07-26 15:15]: > (And the irony is that in the US, the Artistic License has stood up to > attack in court, whereas the GPL has yet to be tested. IIRC) The FSF’s answer on this point, of course, is that the GPL has been tested countless times *before* court and every would-be violator has chosen to settle without a trial. Which presumably demonstrates that the GPL is so watertight and compliance with it so relatively non-onerous that no would-be perpetrator is interested in letting the matter go to the courts. It could then be argued that the fact that the Artistic License has stood up in court – read: has had to stand up in court, i.e. it has been part of a dispute that managed to last long enough for a court to have to rule on it, means that it is the weaker licence. Which only makes for a richer, multidirectional flavour of irony. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next