Not sure how well he’ll be able to hold his own against Trump though, even though the Mastodon authors are absolutely in the right legally. The number of corrupt Trump supporting judges at all levels of the US legal system is honestly just sad.
The Software Freedom Conservancy is currently trying to establish a precedent that “not just the copyright holders, but also the receivers of the licensed code who are entitled to rights” can also sue for copyleft license violations. if this goes through, it will be huge! Both for this and for FLOSS in general, since most FLOSS authors don’t actually have the time or resources to sue on their own behalf.
There is not only the reason. I’m currently suing some toxic artists from Twitter across the borders of Germany, for example. Unfortunately, cooperation, even among the EU countries themselves, is more than pathetic.
I wouldn’t assume that judges being Trump appointees will have any influence on their rulings. When Trump was trying to screw with the election results, many of the judges that were ruling against him were Trump appointees. I’m no fan of the conservative legal movement in general, but they generally don’t do political favors.
Mastodon is AGPLV3 so doesn’t that mean the folks who own “Truth Social” are legally obliged to share their source code?
In another article Eugen said he “intend to seek legal counsel”.
Not sure how well he’ll be able to hold his own against Trump though, even though the Mastodon authors are absolutely in the right legally. The number of corrupt Trump supporting judges at all levels of the US legal system is honestly just sad.
I imagine this is something that GNU foundation would get involved with.
The Software Freedom Conservancy is currently trying to establish a precedent that “not just the copyright holders, but also the receivers of the licensed code who are entitled to rights” can also sue for copyleft license violations. if this goes through, it will be huge! Both for this and for FLOSS in general, since most FLOSS authors don’t actually have the time or resources to sue on their own behalf.
https://lemmy.ml/post/85980
Eugen is German, i dont think there is any reason for him to sue in some other country.
There is not only the reason. I’m currently suing some toxic artists from Twitter across the borders of Germany, for example. Unfortunately, cooperation, even among the EU countries themselves, is more than pathetic.
I wouldn’t assume that judges being Trump appointees will have any influence on their rulings. When Trump was trying to screw with the election results, many of the judges that were ruling against him were Trump appointees. I’m no fan of the conservative legal movement in general, but they generally don’t do political favors.
Correct. But it’s Trump so don’t expect them to play by the rules.
That would indeed be the case.