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  • Yes, but this suit about a different matter (access to source code) which is a user right in the license. It’s the whole point of the GPL. In this suit the users (ie. The buyers of the devices that have received the binary distribution) obviously have standing.

    The problem with relicensing is that the “authors” of a creative work (remember, this is copyright law) are changing the terms of the distribution, and the authors are allowed to do that. The issue at hand is whether the person doing the changing of the terms is allowed to make this change on behalf of “the authors”.

    The users may be impacted by this decision, but they are not a part of the decision making process. Hence, no standing.

    What you need in a relicensing is someone that asserts (co-) authorship of the work. That’s a much taller order.












  • Of course we can change Monday. It’s a social construct. We made it. We can unmake it. We can make it into something else. That’s the point. It’s also real.

    Just like a house is real after we’re done building it.

    We’ve built a machine that produces famine. It does not have to exist. But it does. The machine is real. If we want to get rid of it we have to actually tear it down. Again, like a house.

    The operative word in social construct is not social. It’s construct.





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    basically just memorized most words and their pronunciation instead of actually learning to read

    That’s pretty much the only option you’re Anglo anyway, there are basically no letter-> sound rules that apply over a non trivial vocabulary.