[antiRepublicrat]

Hopefully the contractual elements of his tricky license which he calls “copyleft” verses normal “copyright” will be deemed as unlawful without getting signatures on the dotted line.

I didn't sign for the license for thousands of dollars of software I've bought. Does that mean I'm free to do whatever I want?

In any case, you are missing a BIG concept here. Let's say that a judge tosses out the ENTIRE GPL in this case, the whole thing is declared unenforceable. Where does this leave the company?

It leaves them distributing copyrighted works without a license.

[kevkrom]

It leaves them distributing copyrighted works without a license.

Doesn't matter to Golden Eagle -- he's made it pretty clear that it's OK by him to steal other people's work if he doesn't like those people.