linux-kernel - Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:53:00 +0000
From:   visionsofalice@...chan.it
To:     Eben Moglen <moglen@...umbia.edu>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, esr@...rsus.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rms@....org, bruce@...ens.com,
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Subject: Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. -  Analysis
 published?

Has the analysis been published yet?

I have been away on an artistic sabbatical, but I don't see it in the 
inbox using searches, this was the last mail I received on the subject.

On 2018-10-26 18:31, Eben Moglen wrote:
> On Friday, 26 October 2018, visionsofalice@...chan.it wrote:
> 
>   You are conflating case law dealing with commercial software and
>   non-gratuitous licenses with the present situation, which would 
> likely
>   be a case of first-impression in nearly any jurisdiction.
> 
> I think the best procedure would be for me to publish my analysis and
> for you then to tell me what is wrong with it.  What you say here
> sounds like what a lawyer might say, but isn't.  I have been teaching
> this stuff for about thirty years, so if I am conflating or confusing
> anything I will be grateful for help in seeing my mistake.
> 
>   The rule for gratuitous licenses is that they are revocable at the 
> will
>   of the grantor.
> 
> That's not actually "the rule."  It sounds like it might be the rule,
> but it so happens that it's not.  When I have given the explanation as
> I have learned, taught and depended on it, you will be able to show me
> what I am wrong about.
> 
>   Raymond Nimmer (God rest his soul) was in agreement on this point,
>   vis-a-vis the GPL and similar licenses.
> 
> You have your Nimmers confused.  The primary author of the treatise
> Nimmer on Copyright (a book about the law, not in itself an authority)
> was Melville Nimmer.  The treatise is continued by his son, David, a
> fine lawyer with whom I do from time to time politely disagree about
> something.  Ray Nimmer is quite another person.
> 
> Eben