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.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I imagine this is something that GNU foundation would get involved with.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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 FLOSS license violations. if this goes through, it will be huge! Since most FLOSS authors don't actually have the time or resources to sue on their own behalf.

https://lemmy.ml/post/85980

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago

Eugen is German, i dont think there is any reason for him to sue in some other country.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

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.