Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > And how do the visitors/users of downloaded software from
> > http://www2.verizon.net/micro/actiontec/actiontec.asp
> > suppose to know that they have the all the rights reserved to the
> > copyright owners?
> 

[snip non-answer]

> > The page says "Copyright 2009 Verizon. All Rights Reserved."
> 
> For the contents of the page, of course, not for the contents
> of other pages to which this page links.

http://download.verizon.net/webdownload/firmware/upgrades/actiontec%20gateway/4.0.16.1.56.0.10.7-MI424WR.rmt

IS NOT A LINK TO A PAGE ON A NON-VERIZON HOST WITH ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION REGARDING THE GPL AND AVAILABILITY OF THE CORRESPONDING
SOURCE CODE, stupid.

Verizon's page is legally the same (binary vs. source aside for a
moment) as

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[... blah-blah ...]

Click the below link. The updated software will begin downloading
immediately.

http://terekhov.de/DESIGN-futex-CV.cpp

Copyright 2007 Terekhov. All Rights Reserved.

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page on terekhov.de host.

Or, for that matter, just 

------

[... blah-blah ...]

Click the below link. The updated software will begin downloading
immediately.

http://terekhov.de/DESIGN-futex-CV.cpp

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(All rights reserved by default.)

See also:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html

regards,
alexander.

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