Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > What is your educated opinion regarding the GPL being in trouble re > http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/legislation/treaties/ec/art81_en.html? First of all, the GPL clearly qualifies for the paragraph 3 exception, because is "promoting technical or economic progress, while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit", etc.
It almost certainly doesn't fall under paragraph 1 anyway, because it doesn't "have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the common market". I'm not even sure if it falls in the category of "agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices". It quite clearly doesn't fall under clauses 1(b,c,d,e); and there's substantial evidence from the commercial companies selling GPL software that it doesn't fall under 1a "directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions". So, uh, was that a troll or what? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
