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Wine Now Has Big-Time Lawyers On Its Side

Posted by timothy on from the yerrhoner-ish-purrfik-hic-ly-obvioush dept.

Roblimo writes "For years there's been fear that the Wine Project would get sued by Microsoft at some point, and this fear has kept IBM and other major free software-using companies from participating openly in it. Now the Software Freedom Law Center, headed by Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen, is offering free legal services to Wine (and other FOSS projects) to allay corporate fears and head off potential lawsuits."

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  1. Re:Eben is ok by Emmettfish · · Score: 0, Troll
    He is the lawyer who helped to write the GPL that nobody (even SCO) will test in court and made it so airtight legally.

    Bullshit. The reason that the FSF doesn't go after GPL violators is because the FSF does not want the GPL tested in court. If it's tested and they lose, it's game over, end of line.

    Anyone who feels that the GPL is airtight needs to look at the past twenty years of software and technology litigation to see where the 'common sense' answer lies in every suit. It doesn't exist.

    This is why the FSF takes the position they do on GPL violations. It is always 'let's yell a lot,' never 'let's sue using our legal instrument.'