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There's one HUGE difference between the FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable and the FCC ruling Microsoft's licenses to be unenforceable -- The amount of money Microsoft could spend on lawyers to bludgeon the FCC into submission is astronomical compared to the amount of money FSF could spend on lawyers!

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    Mark Rosenthal


On 10/1/15 12:22 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> The FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable in the context of regulated
> devices would be essentially no different from the FCC ruling Microsoft's
> licenses to be unenforceable in the context of vendors using cracked copies
> of Windows in regulated devices.
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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 10/1/2015 11:22 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>>
>>> "Because I want to make money" is not, last I checked, an acceptable
>>> excuse
>>> for violating license terms.  I don't see how that would be different from
>>> selling cracked copies of Windows.
>>>
>> If the FCC were to rule the terms of the GPL to be unenforceable in the
>> context of regulated devices then there would be no violations. As I wrote
>> before, a software license cannot overrule FCC regs.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rich P.
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