Yes, that is the point. It isn’t clear that the aGPL is enforceable given that software copyright has traditionally involved the right to actually distribute a product and the aGPL doesn’t. The aGPL licence is more like the John Deere EULA than the GPL for instance. I’m not saying it isn’t valid, but the legality hasn’t actually been tested in the US yet. I guess there was a case in Italy?
I agree that the right decision was come to in the Oracle v. Google case but it is a counterexample to the idea that Open Source rights holders always win based on how they write their copyright license and it isn’t impossible that aGPL users could find that their rights are not deemed to be as binding as the license itself spells it out.
It could be other than a cut and dry legal case is all I’m saying. Stealing is stealing unless you are rich.
Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement Tuesday morning slamming the “corruption” of Big Tech companies and claiming his upcoming social media website will be an “extremely well-funded, multi-year undertaking,”
If ANYONE believes that i have a bridge i wish to sell
Guy doesn’t even have the attention span to finish a sentence and he gave up on his blog after like a month. Sure, he’ll totally be capable of seeing a complex multi-year project through to completion.
These revelations of more FBook shenanigans got me thinking all over again that being super rich just makes people want to be even more super rich. Unlike food or drink, there’s no limit to how much money is enough money.
