Re: [ros-dev] Copyright notices

[Quandary]

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


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com

[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
>  
>  
>  __________________________________________________
>  Do You Yahoo!?
>  Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
>  http://mail.yahoo.com

[K McI]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Rafal Kupiec wrote:
>   I think, now we're not violating the GPL.
>  for eg:
>
> http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hostilix/trunk/Sources/apps/notepad/dialog.c?op=…
I hope Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI is invalid (You lost
a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)!

          -uQ
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFCwm9W7mze81O92HkRAll0AJ964viyoDohaV+h/ncjBw28eazNpACfY8Oj
> 2vdNbDkcnFrw7JcN5Je51gU=
> =N5kq
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Rafal Kupiec]

K McI wrote:
>   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>  Hash: SHA1
>  
>  Rafal Kupiec wrote:
>  
> >  I think, now we're not violating the GPL.
> > for eg:
> > http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hostilix/trunk/Sources/apps/notepad/dialog.c?op=…
>  
>  
>  I hope Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI is invalid (You lost
>  a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)!
>  (...) 
What?

[Oliver Schneider]

> >   I hope
> > Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI is invalid (You lost
> >  a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)!
> >  (...) 
>  
>  What? 
http://ww.betacomp.info/ should be http://www.betacomp.info/ ?

Czesc,

Oliver

-- 
---------------------------------------------------
May the source be with you, stranger ;)

ICQ: #281645
URL: http://assarbad.net

[K McI]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Oliver Schneider wrote:
> > >  I hope Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI
> > > is invalid (You lost
> > > a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)!
> > > (...) 
> > What? 
>  
>  http://ww.betacomp.info/ should be http://www.betacomp.info/ ?
>  
>  Czesc,
>  
>  Oliver 
Exactly. Sorry I wasn't very clear, "ww.betacomp.info" doesn't exist.

             -uQ
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFCwoZ+7mze81O92HkRAvKPAJ480uB7smbj5CBfElh78Win8LSTagCcDzAE
> hODPSTr65hjnERMUhTQLDeU=
> =JYgd
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----