On Monday 08 May 2006 17:51, Markus Rechberger wrote: > Hi, > > is anyone already on that issue? > Delock will send me a testdevice, that's very nice of them. I'd send you mine, but this is even better. :) > I'll migrate the code to the new > usbnet framework then. Fixing the copyrights shouldn't be such a > problem there :) What about the file you tried to send me? It had 0kb size, so I couldn't test it. Michael > > Markus > > On 6 May 2006 19:23:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Correct. He is violating the license in a number of ways, though it > > >>> probably isn't totally intentional. > > >> > > >> Removing copyright and licence statements can't have been anything BUT > > >> intentional. > > >> > > >> That's really a basic rule, pretty much a "programming 101" thing. > > >> You know, like "test your code", "don't remove other folks' > > >> copyrights", "don't try to change the licence on code copyrighted by > > >> someone else". > > > > That's programming 101 in a litigous country. Some people are lucky > > enough to live in places where the law is treated with the respect > > it deserves. > > > > > Well, I suspect that poor soul did not know what (s)he was doing. They > > > are clearly trying to do the right thing... just paste back original > > > copyrights and be done with it. > > > > > > No need to pull them into the loop, I'd say. What they done is wrong, > > > but we can correct it without their help. > > > > I'm with Pavel. This was probably done by some underpaid junior coder > > in Bangalore who is utterly innocent of law, much less international law. > > > > The point is, they didn't try to claim it's proprietary and a trade > > secret. Misplacing the credit is very rude, but also easily fixable, > > especially once the duplicate code is properly factored out. > > > > A mention of "you shouldn't do that" is appropriate, but harassing a > > party who's basically being cooperative is unnecessary and > > counterproductive. > > > > A lot of expensive stonewalling in courts is caused by the fact that > > it's dangerous to admit that you did anything wrong; it has very little > > benefit, and lawyers proceed to just twist it into "and what else > > *aren't* they admitting to?" Unless you want to encourage that > > behaviour, please don't make their lawyers regret that they let the > > source code out with the incriminating lack-of-comments. Just fix it and > > move on. > > > > Save your righteous ire for the hard cases at gpl-violations.org. > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > -- > Markus Rechberger > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
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