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Article #2092Re: Proprietary software linked with GNU dynamic libs
From: Isaac
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:53
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:53
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:43:52 GMT, Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote: >Only if they actually take it all the way to a verdict. Aren't most court >battles like these resolved by settling? But maybe that's not an option in >the case of copyright infringement, since it's a criminal matter, not a >civil one. And only then if you end up in the same trial court, or if the decision gets appealed high enough so that it's a binding precedent or is at least considered persuasive in the court you end up in. I wouldn't expect this issue to get resolved judicially any time soon. I'm not sure why you say definitively that copyright infringement is a criminal matter. Under US law some kinds of infringement are criminal but some (most?) are only civil matters. Isaac
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