On Friday 21 September 2007 12:15, Jasbir Khehra wrote: > [snip] > Just going through the case , the 'complainant' ( or 'plantiffs' ) > are the copyright holders of that particular software and hence the > basis of their case. > Therefore, is my assumption correct that to enforce GPL compilance , > the complainant has to be one of the following two individuals : > a) Author of a GPLed software > b) End user or consumer of a product which contains GPL software. > And not any other third party ??
As far as I know only the copyright holder of the software can file for a copyright violation. IANAL however, and before you decide to bump off Linus Torvalds and then merrily violate GPL on the Linux kernel, you should consult a lawyer who knows about these things. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
