On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:45 PM, <do...@mail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:15:26 +0100 > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > >> thus sadly they no longer have the right to distribute the FP2. or >> future products. if they continue to do so they will be operating as >> an illegal criminal cartel (an Organised Crime Syndicate) *not* a >> Cooperative. > > Does this refer to their "US Legal rights" to distribute their products > or that we should not give them the right to distribute their products to > us by virtue of a purchase?
it's copyright law, plain and simple. if you violate the GPLv2 you lose all distribution rights. if you then *continue* to distribute without those rights, you are in criminal infringement of copyright law. if a *company* continues to do that, the company is breaking the law. if a company is breaking the law, it is no longer a company, it is a criminal cartel. it's a simple chain. many people have pointed out however a flaw in this logic, that copyright is a civil offense not a criminal offense. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
