[ros-dev] Re: Copyright notices

[Rafal Kupiec]

I think, now we're not violating the GPL.
for eg:
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hostilix/trunk/Sources/apps/notepad/dialog.c?op=…


Quandary wrote:
>   On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Eric Kohl
>  wrote:
>  
> >  Lucio Diaz wrote:
> >
> > >  Third post, but, i downloaded their source code,
> > > and it seems the original copyright notices are
> > > there, so they are not violating the GNU licence.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Lucio Diaz. 
> > The Hostilix 'developers' are still guilty of
> > willful misrepresentation of the copyright because
> > 1) They added their copyright to otherwise unchanged
> > files and 2) they can only claim a copyright for the
> > year 2005 but not from 1999 to 2005.
> >
> > So they are still violating the GPL. 
>  
>  
>  They aren't violating the GPL by misrepresentation
>  (per se); they're (likely) violating the underlying
>  copyright law by making a false claim to ownership.
>  There's a subtle difference ;).
>  
>  -- Travis
>  
>  
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