On 9/22/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2007 12:15, Jasbir Khehra wrote: > > [snip] > > Therefore, is my assumption correct that to enforce GPL compilance , > > the complainant has to be one of the following two individuals : > > a) Author of a GPLed software > > b) End user or consumer of a product which contains GPL software. > > And not any other third party ?? > > As far as I know only the copyright holder of the software can file for > a copyright violation. Hmm , well so in that case we should have some proxy set up in India who can on behalf of the Copyright holder file a case, for example in the case of Harald Welte against D-Link , Herald acted as a proxy on behalf of the original copyright holders, quoting from the english translation of the judgement of the case [1] <quote> With three contractual agreements designated "Fiduciary Licensing Agreements", the exclusive rights to copy,to distribute, and of public display, as well as the right to allow a third party to undertake modifications in the programs, were transferred for three software programs to Plaintiff: Mr. Werner Almesberger, who is an Austrian citizen, transferred these rights to Plaintiff for the software "msdosfs" on December 12, 2004 (Annex K5) </unqote> Purpose of my suggestion is for doing up all the legwork before hand so that its easier to file for GPL violations when the need arises :)
> IANAL however, and before you decide to bump > off Linus Torvalds and then merrily violate GPL on the Linux kernel, Violate GPL , no way!!! maybe the tenor of my question made u think so :P [1] http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_frankfurt_gpl.pdf regards, Jasbir _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
