Re: Legal solution: RE: [PHP-DEV] Non-GPL readline

Not really - the FSF has very strong power outside the court - the power of the public opinion. When someone is portrayed in 'Good vs. Evil' (GNU vs. put_your_name_here), then things beyond legal basis come into the picture. It doesn't change the fact that the GPL is a very vague legal document, which is essentially why people always say the GPL is 'what Richard Stallman says it is'. Zeev At 01:41 16/1/2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

Zeev Suraski wrote: AFAIK the GPL never made it into court. Apparently it's way too vague to be useful anyway. AFAIK every serious issue with it (like Objective C) has been resolved out of court yet, and it wasn't the FSF that had to give in in all of theese cases so it _could_ be that it's not to vague but the other way round ... -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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