Re: RE: implications of recent legal trends

[gshipley () neohapsis com (Greg Shipley)]

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mila, Brian D wrote:

> out.  The real meat of the
> story (not mentioned in that article) was that the author of cphack had
> GPL'ed it, so legally can 
> Mattel claim the rights to it? I believe this is why the ACLU got involved
> in the first place.  

Right.  And if memory serves, Mattel sued to block the distribution of it,
then attempted to purchase it, and then there was some debate about
whether the GPL applied, and the last I heard about this was the ruling:

http://www.politechbot.com/cyberpatrol/final-injunction.html

There's a whole bunch of stuff on that site, too.  This reminds me of
parts of the WIPO bill, which, to the best of my knowledge, have not ever
been truly tested in a court of law.

Wishing I had more time,

-Greg