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Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts
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Alexander Terekhov |
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Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts |
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Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:30:07 +0200 |
John Hasler wrote:
[...]
> There is no need to round them all up. Each has a copyright in the work
> and can prosecute infringement independently of all the others. Thus IBM
> is prosecuting its claims that SCO is infringing its copyrights
Uncle Husler, uncle Husler. IBM asserted two GPL (counter) claims. The
first one was breach of contract. I mean IBM's SIXTH COUNTERCLAIM Breach
of the GNU General Public License against SCO. No violation of the
copyright act is alleged. "SCO accepted the terms of the GPL... IBM is
entitled to a declaration that SCO's rights under the GPL terminated, an
injunction prohibiting SCO from its continuing and threatened breaches of
the GPL and an award of damages in an amount to be determined at trial."
Now, later IBM also nicely trolled SCO with Moglen's "retroactive
copyright infringement" theory (in another counterclaim which was asserted
a month or two later). I suggest you read SCO's reply.
And, BTW, neither is prosecuted currently. Both PSJs were denied without
prejudice.
regards,
alexander.
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