On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 01:18:06 +0000, Ian wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> She has been negligent in her duties under the GPL, and she has in > fact not complied with the license, > and may in principle face a civil action from Bob - who cannot > legally sell the car he's bought. > She could also face possible criminal charges for copyright violation > - this seems vanishingly unlikely. ..I would think that would depend how badly Bob feels about being screwed, he can easily press charges on Alice, getting her convicted is quite another challenge, but she could easily wail loudly enough in the press to get VW owners worrying about their own second hand value and VW about their first hand value. ..so in Bob's shoes, I would press those charges if I didn't like VW's response to requests for source, and in VW's shoes I would point Bob to my (VW's) source site and make him and Alice and VW share holders etc happy. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
