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Improve definition of “summary judgment” & make it “Featured Term”

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Bradley Kuhn 2025-07-26 13:57:04 -07:00
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conservancy/content/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html
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@ -94,10 +94,17 @@ requests for remedy for the matter.</p>
<h3 id="specific-performance">specific performance</h3>
<p>Fulfilling the requirements of a contract in exactly the way the contract specifies. When most contracts are disputed in court, the plaintiff expects to receive money, that they can use to remedy the harm that the other party caused them in not holding up their side of the deal. When a plaintiff seeks specific performance, they want something that money can’t replace.</p>
<h3 id="summary-judgment">Summary Judgment</h3>
<h3 id="summary-judgment">summary judgment</h3>
<p>In a <em>summary judgment</em> motion, a party in a lawsuit asks the Court
to rule immediately on some (or all) of the claims made in <a
href="#complaint">the complaint</a>.
to rule immediately on some (or all) of the claims made
in <a href="#complaint">the complaint</a>. A motion for summary judgment on
just some issues is called &ldquo;partial&rdquo; &mdash;. To rule
affirmatively for summary judgment, the Judge must determine there are no
issues of <em>fact</em> in dispute on the issue(s) in question. The Judge
rules as a matter of <em>law</em> on the issue. In some state courts &mdash;
including California &mdash; these motions are called &ldquo;motion for
summary adjudication&rdquo;.</p>
<h3 id="third-party-beneficiary">third-party beneficiaries of the GPL</h3>
<p>People who aren’t a party to a <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> agreement, but who would benefit from the contract if the parties to the <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> do as they promise under the agreement. An example of such a benefit might be the receipt of the source code of the GPL’d software. See also General Public License (GPL).</p>

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@ -85,9 +85,18 @@ strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). <a href="/about" class="orange">
<div class="w-30-ns mh2">
<div class="ph3 pv2 ba b--gray">
<h3 class="ttu">Featured Term</h3>
<h4 id="foss-commons">amicus curiae</h4>
<p>“Amicus curiae” literally means “friend of the court” and is what you call someone who isn’t a party to the case but,because of their strong interest or expertise in the subject matter of the case, has information or argument that the court would find useful in reaching a decision.</p>
<p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#amicus" class="orange ttu">Visit our glossary of terms</a></p>
<h4 id="summary-judgment">Summary Judgment</h4>
<p>In a <em>summary judgment</em> motion, a party in a lawsuit asks the Court
to rule immediately on some (or all) of the claims made
in <a href="#complaint">the complaint</a>. A motion for summary judgment on
just some issues is called &ldquo;partial&rdquo; &mdash;. To rule
affirmatively for summary judgment, the Judge must determine there are no
issues of <em>fact</em> in dispute on the issue(s) in question. The Judge
rules as a matter of <em>law</em> on the issue. In some state courts &mdash;
including California &mdash; these motions are called &ldquo;motion for
summary adjudication&rdquo;.</p>
<p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html" class="orange ttu">Visit
our full glossary of terms &hellip;</a></p>
</div>
<div class="mh3 pt3">