Dave, On Thu, 07 Sep 2006, Dave Grothe wrote:
> > Took you awhile to come up with that one, didn't it? (I was, and am still, on vacation.) > 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. I didn't waive anything. It is your obligation under the GPL (Section 1) to include a copy of the license, regardless of whether you were given one or not. > Second, this "violation" is easily remedied by simply adding a copy of > the full GPL in a file included with the LiS distribution. Except that your rights to distribute these files under the license has already terminated. You will need the permission of the copyright holder if you want them reinstated. > 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.) Yes, someone might have violated the license by not including one as you have. > 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 Yes, please remove the files from your website (including the strinet package on your site in which they are contained). (But, I think that I already asked you to do this.) --brian > > ./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 -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
