Please take the name-calling elsewhere.
Imagine a film company waiting patiently in court until you could find
the right files to cure an infringement of their property.
In this sort of case, the copyright holder can persuade the judge that
there is probability of an award of some size, and that your financial
resources should be attached lest you fail to find the right files and
then have to pay damages.
We're used to the Free Software folks nicely just asking for compliance.
But they have all of the tools that the law makes available to more
aggressive copyright holders.
Thanks
Bruce
On 03/11/2014 08:14 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
Bad example, but, let's say someone requests something that I did 2
years ago, and I no longer support it. In order to get the source, I
have to get it from off site storage, restore it, and then get it to
you. If that happens to take me a few weeks, I wouldn't think it was
unreasonable. Some zealots might, but in the end, there is no firm
definition. So long as the effort required to provide the code is
reasonable, then there is no issues.
I suspect the question in a court of law would be, was the intent of
the delays to impede or discourage requests for the source code.
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-- Thomas
