Hi ya,
Not to be confrontative but just because a project is open-source, it doesn't mean IP is open too!! The original idea is still property of the originator... It just has the global community adding their own IP and fixes. This is a core of corporate contracts ensuring that a developers IP become freely usable by the company they work for at the time, but their IP is still their IP. In the UK at least, a developers IP cannot be hijacked by a company contract. If you write some code while working for X, then X has free usage of that IP and may restrict you from using the same IP for company Y, but only for a limited time (ie 5 years)… The IP you came up with is still yours and a contract that claims your IP can (and has been in a court of law) judged to be null and void. The problem is proving it!!! > From: jeanpierr...@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:00:11 -0400 > Subject: Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack > To: lamial...@cleverpun.com > CC: python-list@python.org > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Temia Eszteri <lamial...@cleverpun.com> wrote: > > And you know what? Leighton was right to threaten legal action. What > > you did was not only in violation of his IP, but also multiple data > > theft laws. > > As far as copyright goes, it was open source, so he's allowed to > continue making modifications. I don't think Luke had any patents. > > There might be something with stealing the name "PyJS" (which was, > AFAIK, used as a synonym for "PyJamas") -- apparently "common law > trademark" is a thing. Otherwise... > > The domain was apparently not directly owned by Luke (but pointed to a > server luke administered), and its transfer was apparently consensual. > > It seems like nearly every evil thing the hijacker did is legally > permissible. The one other thing was the way he created the new > mailing list might not have been legal, apparently. (See > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-May/1291804.html ). > > -- Devin > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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