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Daniel Wallace is a solo software developer and critic of the open source movement; see, for example, his comment to this post of mine. He argues in that comment that the GPL is a contract, not merely a license. Wallace’s ability to prove that claim will be central to the pro se lawsuit he recently filed in federal court against the Free Software Foundation, alleging illegal price-fixing.

I’ve downloaded his four-page complaint from PACER; it’s available here.

It will be illuminating to see how Mr. Wallace will argue that a copyright licensor’s restriction that downstream licenses to its copyrights must be granted at no charge rises to the level of an antitrust violation.