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
> 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 ;).

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[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=d...

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
> > 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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[K McI]

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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=d...

I hope Revision 42 isn't the latest because the URI is invalid (You lost
a "w" somewhere from 1 to 42)!

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[Rafal Kupiec]

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> 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=d...
>
> 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
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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.

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