[antlr-interest] submission of patches, fixes, other contributions

[Gerald B. Rosenberg]

At 08:34 AM 5/31/2005, Martin Probst wrote:

>Hi,
>
> > It is important to realize that, after almost 30 years, there have
> > been very few actual or even attempted adjudications of these
> > clauses.
>
>You probably know that, but just to mention: in Germany the GPL (and if
>I'm not mistaken, the LGPL too) has been approved in court several times
>now. Though the issue was always about some vendor not adhering the
>"contribute back" part of the license.

Several actions, but only one that I have heard of -- Dutch, I thought -- 
that has actually come to a judicial decision.

>The court argued that even if
>someone might come to the conclusion that the GPL is not valid wrt
>German law, there would have been nothing that allowed the vendor to use
>that source in the first place.

If I am not mistaken, you are referring to one of the preliminary motions 
-- interesting, but we will have to wait for something final.  And, of 
course you heard that many of our leading US Senators consider it 
high-treason for our Supreme Court justices to even read international 
court decisions.  Priceless ... (in the intellectually bankrupt sense).

Best,
Gerald
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