On Monday 13 November 2006 14:57, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > What I like about the agreement with FSFE is that it covers to a large extent > > this point. As it stands today, I'm not really much in a position to defend > > my copyright from a financial point of view, from a legal point of view, or > > from a point of view of motivation (i.e. enduring the agravation of a > > lawsuit). > > To put it bluntly anyone who violates the licensing agreement is a > software pirate. > > Software piracy is a criminal activity in most countries, usually with > some threshold for enforcement - but in the case of embedded systems > that's trivially reached
Well, I share your frustrations, but I'm not too sure that a copyright violation is a criminal offense. Even if it is a criminal offense, I suspect that most copyright violations (not just software) are resolved through civil proceedings. In any case, if it is a criminal offense, I suspect that one would have a hard time getting the judicial system to accept/investigate a criminal copyright complaint in civil law countries like Switzerland except in the most wildly flagrant cases ... > > So far there has been no criminal enforcement of GPL license violations > (surprise surprise) but I get the impression that various taiwanese makers > are edging ever-closer to it.... What do you mean? Are you saying that Taiwanese makers are in violation of license agreements? > > AB > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
