[Foundation-l] Ruling: copyleft licenses mean what they say, no foolin'

Michael Snow wikipedia at verizon.net
Thu Aug 14 22:08:06 UTC 2008


Michael Bimmler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html
>>
>> Lessig calls this "huge":
>>
>> http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html
>>
>> So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into
>> compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.
>>     
> By the way, somewhere along the opinion, there is a sentence like "The
> Wikimedia Foundation, which was also an amicus curiae, said....".
>
> Mike, would it be possible for you to release the WMF's amicus curiae
> brief to the public? I would be quite interested in this.
>   
I believe it's the one at 
http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/docket/cafc-pi-1/ccc_brf.pdf

--Michael Snow




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