On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:47:52 +0200, Stefan wrote in message <201106081247.52326.n...@detonation.org>:
> On Wednesday 08 June 2011 12:27:30 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:06:48 +0300 (EEST), thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi > > wrote in message > > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see how willingness to > > > exercise copyright under GPL would require moving to a different > > > license. > > > > ..you assume such "moving moving to a different license" has not > > taken place, (y)our (f)actual unwillingness to actually exercise > > your rights under copyright law to defend or enforce your > > copyrights, can be construed and asserted as "a new license" > > alongside the GPL. > > May I ask on which jurisdiction your claim is based? ..our current "GPL" practice under US and Norwegian law, the Norwegian government is pro-EU and hauls in at least all the bad stuff from EU directives. > Because I know for a fact that it does not have anything to do with German or > Austrian law and am quite sure that there is no other European > country where the law works anything like you described and the same > goes for the USA. ..the laws are no problem, it's _us_ Not Even Trying to stop infringement once we find it, and thereby in practice giving the bad guys "a license to carry on." > Could it be that you're mixing copyright and > trademarks? Because trademarks are the only kind of "intellectual > property" rights which you have actually have to enforce in order to > not lose them. ..nope, yes trademarks needs that and it is not something "you can have cops do for you", trademark litigation is expensive civil litigation, where copyright enforcement is "a simple cheap case of having your lawyer call the cops", "cops" generally have no clue in copyright matters, they merely execute court orders. > There's no such need for copyright or creator's rights. For the > latter, one cannot even lose them if one wants. They are > non-transferable and non- relinquishable. ..correct, once they are defended. Our current practice is effectively a license alongside the GPL, until someone gets off his ass and defends his copyright on his own GPL code. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
