Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] If it is a > license from the copyright holders, than the only ones who can sue > Debian for distribution of sourceless GPL'ed works are, er, the people > who originally gave out those works in that form. I understand there is > some contention around whether this claim is accurate (and I claim no > deep understanding of international copyright and contract law to make a > claim for either side), but I think that is the fairly simple counter > argument. [...]
While fairly simple, it is totally incorrect, as public distribution in breach of copyright carries criminal liability in England, as I previously posted. See the Copyright Designs and Patents Act as amended, under the criminal liability heading. http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm I suspect most of the EU has similar law these days, although I cannot name them. By the way, we could be sued by the copyright holders of any firmware which has been reproduced without permission: that is, the copyright holders are not those issuing them under GPL. I remind aj that I am not a lawyer, but have been punished for copyright mistakes in the past, so learnt about it. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]