Kenneth, On 10-Mar-09, at 6:12, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 01:01:31 Aasif Shaikh wrote: >> Now the question arises; if a *PERSON A* develops a stable and good >> project as an Open Source and upload it over the internet and the >> *PERSON B* from some other country downloads and modify it with his >> name >> as an author (basically he is stealing someone's code) and sell it to >> some company to make money out of it. So how this *PERSON A* is >> going to >> be benefited. > > person B gets sued for copyright violation and has to pay damages to > person A. > See what happened to D-link, skype et al: > GPL doesn't restrict someone to sell a gpl software to others, just that the buyer is not aware of the 4 freedoms he is entitled with. Ok how else would you define forking of software? VTiger.com is a good example of such a fork of sugarcrm. In the described case Person B has to change the name coz if he doesn't then the original dev would sue him for using his name without permission, classic example Redhat. Moreover GPL hasn't yet been challenged in Indian court of laws, you are a lawyer if I m not wrong, are you aware of any such incidents? > http://gpl-violations.org/ > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Regards, Mitul Limbani, Enterux Solutions, www.enterux.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
