On 14/04/2014 09:42, Neil Brown wrote:
On 14 Apr 2014, at 09:11, Andrew Katz <andrew.k...@moorcrofts.com
<mailto:andrew.k...@moorcrofts.com>> wrote:
I've spoken to the division at HM Revenue and Customs which deals
with the seizure of infringing items, and they see no reason in
principle why they may not use their powers against items containing
infringing GPL code. However, the applicant does have to give various
undertakings as to costs and damages etc. if the allegation turns out
to be incorrect (which means, potentially, that they may be forced to
the expense of proving their case in a court of law), so this is a
fairly major disincentive to use this process.
*Very* interesting, indemnities / undertakings notwithstanding…
Agreed, thanks Andrew.
I'd be happy to throw some money and time into a venture to enforce the
GPL in the UK; I have no idea how we'd really get such a venture off the
ground - we'd need an (ideally UK based) linux kernel contributor, a
lawyer (I guess there's a few of those around ;-) ) and some form of
legal status (I wonder if it could qualify as a charity, albeit that'd
be a quite a bit of work too).
Joseph
