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Article #2093Re: Proprietary software linked with GNU dynamic libs
From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:33
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:33
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Isaac wrote: > >Aren't most court > >battles like these resolved by settling? The vast majority of legal disputes of all forms are settled. > >But maybe that's not an option in > >the case of copyright infringement, since it's a criminal matter, not a > >civil one. > ... > 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. True, and even so, criminal cases are settled all the time. In that context, a settlement is called a plea bargain. Such settlements do not establish precedent.
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