The implication of your post is very clear, if you care to retract it Im all ears..
yes I hope they lose and this tricky license of theirs is shown to actually be a contract, but non-binding since they don’t have it in writing that any tricky contract was agreed to by all parties.
So you hope that the court rules that Monsoon, against the wishes of the copyright holders, acted appropriately in taking and using code in a manner not permitted by the owners.
Regarding the part in bold. I am assuming you think the BSD license should also be invalidated? After all I have used many BSD distros but I have never gotten anything in writing.
You can believe whatever you want, but the fact is the BSD license isn’t a “reciprocal” license like Stallman’s. Monsoon obviously should have used BSD instead of Linux to avoid having to deal with all the copyleftists. That’s what Slingbox did, which makes a similar device to the one from Monsoon. Works great, we have 2 of them in fact, and Slinbox didn’t have to deal with Stallman or give any of their code away either. Hopefully more companies will see the advantages and start using BSD as well.