On Sunday 09 August 2009 12:41:26 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Saturday, August 8, 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Raymond Martin wrote: > > > On Saturday 08 August 2009 13:25:09 you wrote: > > >> I know this sort of thing is easily overlooked, but it's probably > > >> illegal and certainly unethical to redistribute someone else's work > > >> without attribution (a basic necessity of copyright which the GPL > > >> doesn't disclaim). > > > > > > No it is not illegal at all. The only things required are those in the > > > GPL, nothing else matters. > > > > Copyright law does; after all, that's the only thing that makes the > > GPL work. But I'm happy to admit that I'm quite unclear on this > > point, namely whether it's technically legal (even if offensively bad > > form) to redistribute binaries of a GPL'd work without any of the > > attribution that is required in redistributing the source code. I'd > > be interested in any more information about this. (Preferably not > > from you -- you've asserted too many wrong or disputable opinions as > > if they were fact for me to give any credibility to anything you write > > -- but other citations would be of interest.) > > There is not a single "copyright law", but as many laws as countries. But > if you mean that the copyright attribution is a requirement from the Berne > Convention, I think that you may be right. > > "Copyright. Examples and explanations", by Stephen M. McJohn. Page 262 > http://books.google.com/books?id=Gq9VbEQnxaQC&lpg=PA262&pg=PA262 > > Anyway, the GPL license does not explicitly require the attribution, unlike > some other licenses like BSD and CC-By. Why should be explicitly required > if it were a right granted by the law applicable in any state? > > The undeniable fact is that failing to properly recognize the authorship of > some work is very ugly, and people showing such disrespect is a candidate > for public blame. I'm not talking about you. In my experience when I've > contributed to some project, I've almost always been credited. I'm not > going to sue anybody that failed to do so, but they risk to face public > embarrassment some day.
When are people going to stop sending spam to this list. Give up people. Let these threads die already. Raymond _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
