Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

Alan Cox
2008-02-07T15:08:31Z

> No, I'm right. The word "proof" is appropriate in context. (I write in
> plain English, not Legalese.) I certainly didn't intend "proof" to mean
> "mathematically certain." Anybody who pretends that proof in court
> means that must be ignorant or trying to deceive.

I'm afraid you are wrong despite your desperate attempts to reinterpret
your own comments. The civil law is "balance of probability". Those are
the precise words used. As it is a dispute between two civil parties with
no assumed right or wrong it is a matter of which interpretation is most
likely "proof" doesn't come into it whatever version of proof you want to
pick this email.

"burden of proof" is a specific term with a specific meaning in law.