Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Dell vs. GPL |
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Everyone else general talks out of their hat and not from a truly informed position. I will qualify the statement, having paid for legal advise from lawyers who specialize in the field of technology, copyright, and patent law.
When they tell you they will not open a case on your behalf until a registered copyright is in hand, that point real hard.
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On 30 Jun 2003, Miles Bader wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes: > > I know first hand that I can not take "RAIDZONE" to court yet to sue for > > GPL violation to get the code back into the community and monetary > > damages, until I fully file a registered copyright and not the halfassed > > crap of just sticking you name and email address in a file. > > > > GPL wins great. > > GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets > > serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source. > > Even if you are right about the need to register (I have no idea, though > everyone else seems to say otherwise), this seems like a bizarre > conclusion. If the problem is the lack of proper copyright > registration, how would changing the license make the least bit of > difference? > > -Miles > -- > `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive > that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products > less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist] >
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