Hooray wrote in Sun May 29, 2016 8:25 pm:suing could be considered ridiculous depending on how much development/activity the aircraft has seen since then, i.e. the intent of the aircraft developer was definitely having a single development stream, but for that actual "development" could be considered the prerequisite - i.e. if its development has obviously stalled by all standards, any attempts at suing would be almost certainly rejected in the line of the communicated intent of the creator of the original work.
Hooray wrote in Sun May 29, 2016 8:25 pm:Equally, the statement itself is hugely contradictory, too - i.e. mentioning upfront that the work is intended to become GPL, and even LGPL, while excluding commercial use is symptomatic for a deep misunderstanding of the correspondign licenses in the first place; as all of us should know by now, there's no way for GPL'ed software to be excluded from being commercialized.
Hooray wrote in Sun May 29, 2016 8:25 pm:Thus, this case would stand on shaky grounds, if not even quicksand - at which point it ending up at fgmembers may not be the worst thing to happen ...
rominet wrote in Sun May 29, 2016 8:51 pm:So, it's okay to attack someone in a dark forest because the risk of being seen is very low? Wow...
The risk being that an unrealistic law suit is attempted.....
Thorsten wrote in Mon May 30, 2016 10:29 am:The risk being that an unrealistic law suit is attempted.....
I dunno - one of these days, you'll manage to annoy someone so much he gives GitHub a hint - then it's their legal liability and you can watch them pull the plug if they judge the legal risk different from you.
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