Story submission: Eric S. Raymond: [GPL]"revokists" have it right. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2019-06-02 06:08 (#4GAXT) Eric S. Raymond: [GPL]"revokists" have it right.http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8317#comment-2238862 (Archive link: http://archive.fo/emkVd )A commentator asked on Eric S. Raymond's website:>ESR: Eben Moglen suggested that he was going to write a paper refuting the notion that "The GPL is revocable":>>>I think the best procedure would be for me to publish my analysis and>>for you then to tell me what is wrong with it.>https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/26/718>>Why has no such paper from him materialized?ESR response was shocking, blunt, and to the point:>esr on 2019-05-30 at 08:08:23 said:>>>Why has no such paper from him materialized?>>Because Moglen is either wrong about or deliberately misrepresenting the law and the "revokists" have it right. Thank you, I had already figured this out from his (non)responses on lkml. Re: Story submission: Eric S. Raymond: [GPL]"revokists" have it right. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2019-06-02 06:10 (#4GAXV) esr on 2019-05-31 at 08:44:49 said:>Again, if the revokists have it right, I don't think you'll like how that will actually play out.Maybe I won't, but the law is what it is. We can't solve any problem by denying that reality.
Re: Story submission: Eric S. Raymond: [GPL]"revokists" have it right. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2019-06-02 06:10 (#4GAXV) esr on 2019-05-31 at 08:44:49 said:>Again, if the revokists have it right, I don't think you'll like how that will actually play out.Maybe I won't, but the law is what it is. We can't solve any problem by denying that reality.