On 8/24/2012 8:35 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: > If anyone wants to rebut, dispute, or otherwise challenge my analysis > or conclusions about the copyright status of Linuxcnc, it would be > great if you could do so some time in the next two weeks or so. If you > need more time to compose your arguments, just post a short e-mail to > the list saying so! > > I think the first thing to do is to allow some time for other points of > view to be expressed before moving ahead with any actual work. Blue sky > speculation is fine of course :) > > I'm driving to Texas today to work on a Linuxcnc controlled lathe (50 > horsepower!), so it'll be a few days before I can read the list again. > > Thanks, > Matt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > >
I think it would be really smart to pass this by a couple of lawyers. My daughter just started law school in Washington DC so she is probably not a good candidate to look into this, but I will send the link on to her anyway. Perhaps she can pass it by some people at the university. My cousins husband is the head legal council at a large company that sells information services to lawyers, but I know that he has been supplying a lot of pro bono work to some worthy national causes already. Still, he might know a lawyer that would be willing to donate some time to look at this situation if he is too busy. I'll send the link to him also.. I have been involved in two legal disputes over the last year. What I have learned is that there is the "law", and then there is the "execution of the law" which is oftentimes entirely different than the actual law. The one situation I had started in Michigan, and the local Sherrif thought it was a criminal case. However, a few months later the local prosecutor decided that she didn't want to pursue it, and advised me to pursue it as a civil case, even though the law was clearly broken. The Sherrif was upset as they had put a lot of work into the case but he explained that the local prosecutors office was overrun with too many cases so they had to pick and choose which ones they were going to pursue. So I ended up pursuing it as a civil case and eventually won but I spent a lot of time and some money doing it. I know that there are some companies who have used LinuxCNC as their machine controller and I am not convinced that they have followed the existing licensing on the LinuxCNC software. If a company or individual does not follow the existing licensing, how will the licensing be enforced? If the licensing is not enforced, then what value does the existing licensing hold? Good luck on the big lathe Matt. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
