On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/1/6 Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>: >> We must find a procedure to avoid such lawsuits. i.e. "show us where >> some community members have copied you and we remove the information >> from your sources" kind of response to any claims of copyright > > Didn't lots of people ask SCO to show proof of their claims and the > people that did get to see their "proof" had to sign off on NDAs? >
As far as I know, US is the only where they tried to prosecute somebody who did a "digital crime" in another country, I am than thinking of Dmitri Sklyarov who had through his work reverse engineered adobe e-book format in order to make an e-book reader for blind people. The "crime" was comitted in Russia, where reverse engineering is (was?) a legimit way of industry. Can't remember how long he was held in a California prison, but it was quite some time before he could return to russia. He went to the states to talk on a conference on software security. But this is getting pretty OOT _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
