Re: Dell vs. GPL

[Thomas Dodd]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]> writes:
>>GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets
>>serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source.
> 
> 
> The `copyright registration' requirements, whatever they are, would
> seem to apply equally to the GPL and whatever other `OSL' you have, so
> why on earth would some court loss related to copyright registration
> have any effect on what license people choose?

Either license would still reguire registration for enforcement. But the 
_new_ license, like OSL, would "will have teeth to defend", and stand up 
in court since the GPL didn't. A new GPL might also come about that is 
strong enough, but you still need the legal power to defend it.

	-Thomas