First, you are the original violator of the GPL since you conveyed these files to me and did not accompany them with a copy of the GPL, or request that I add a copy of the GPL to the LiS distribution. So it would be fair to argue that you have waived your rights to this requirement.
Second, this "violation" is easily remedied by simply adding a copy of the full GPL in a file included with the LiS distribution.
Third, there is a clause in the license notice in the files themselves that render this requirement suspect.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
In other words, you make provision in your notice that the recipient may not have received a copy of the license and what to do about it if he/she did not. (This is standard GNU recommend language.)
All that notwithstanding I am perfectly happy to remove OpenSS7 code from the LiS distribution. There is nothing of use to me within LiS that uses any of it anyway.
-- Dave
At 12:50 PM 9/7/2006, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
Dave,
Regardless of whether your modified sources are considered simple
aggregation (which they cannot), your fundamental gpl-violation is that
you did not include a copy of the license per Section 1 of the GPL.
Thus your distribution is in violation of the GPL, and your attempt to
distribute the files without a copy of the license means that, for you,
the license is void and terminates. Anyone else that has redistributed
LiS-2.18.0 from your site without including the license, such as Steve,
is also in fundamental violation of the GPL and the license to these
files was void and terminated. As we follow a dual-licensing model,
punitive damages may have resulted from these gpl violations. For more
information, see http://www.gpl-violations.org/
--brian
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dave Grothe wrote:
>
> Sorry, Charlie.
> From GNU GPL license version 2:
>
> In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the
> Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a
> volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other
> work under the scope of this License.
>
> and
>
> You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
> except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
> otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
> void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
> License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from
> you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so
> long as such parties remain in full compliance.
>
> So you have no right to revoke the terms and conditions of the GPL.
> And my mere aggregation of these files is in full compliance. Steve
> and others can speak for themselves.
> -- Dave
> At 04:48 PM 8/30/2006, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>
> Dave,
> ./include/tihdr.h
> ./include/timod.h
> ./include/sys/tihdr.h
> ./include/sys/timod.h
> ./include/sys/tpi.h
> ./include/sys/xti.h
> ./include/sys/xti_inet.h
> ./include/sys/xti_sctp.h
> ./include/sys/xti_xti.h
> ./include/sys/xti_ip.h
> ./include/sys/xti_tcp.h
> ./include/sys/xti_udp.h
> ./include/xti/config.h
> ./include/xti/tihdr.h
> ./include/xti/timod.h
> ./include/xti/xti_atm.h
> ./include/xti/xti.h
> ./include/xti/xti_inet.h
> ./include/xti/xti_ip.h
> ./include/xti/xti_local.h
> ./include/xti/xti_mosi.h
> ./include/xti/xti_osi.h
> ./include/xti/xti_sctp.h
> ./include/xti/xti_tcp.h
> ./include/xti/xti_udp.h
> ./include/xti.h
> ./include/xti_inet.h
> Your license to copy and distribute these files is revoked. Please
> remove them from your website.
> --brian
> --
> Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the
> ¦
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in
> ¦
> [1]http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to
> himself. ¦
> ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the
> ¦
> ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
> ¦
>
> References
>
> 1. http://www.openss7.org/
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