On Thursday 28 November 2002 19:56, Ben Reser wrote: > > There is no clause in copyright law about failing to protect your > copyright. That only applies to trademark and patent law. AFAIK it does not apply to patents, only trademark. Remember lzw/gif?
Igor: > > Finally, you have to understand that a mere filing of a lawsuit is enough haha, if that would be true, why don't they file a lawsuit just for fun now? > So worse case scenario is that they throw their weight around a bit to > bully us into doing what they want. Great PR stunt, would give mandrake some good press! OTOH: some other programs which do not have a completely open licence (nvidia?) are distrubuted by the club. Maybe that is allowed? My trouble with plf is that it can take a lot of time before a user finds were to get this stuff (since I consider it unlikely that plf is added to default urpmi sources). Danny
