On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:59:01PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:08:23 +0100, > "Peter J. Philipp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. > > I have no proof of this personally but I ask you to help me find evidence of > > this. There is not much I can do about this, except if the person or > > persons > > were stupid enough to change the license to their names. > > > > The only way to be protected is to try to make patent for some algorithms, > but it is expensive in terms of fee to support in different countries (for > example Germany fee is close to ???2k/year at the end of the table) and > requires a lot of paperwork by quite expensive lawyers. > > So in the end you never know the outcome and predicting the decision of the > court is impossible. Ok, the only known outcome of the court is that your > lawyer makes very good money. > > -- > wbr, Kirill
This isn't about Patents, this is about Copyright. And that's the sole interest of mine, and Lawyers are there for a reason. It should interest OpenBSD in one form or another since i used the same Copyright and License as them, if the outcome may be that the Copyright does not protect my works and its license then there is no need to retain a license at the top of every source file at all. Again, like I said, all I have to go on is hearsay, and I'm looking for a mistake that the entity did indeed change the license and copyright of the original source code. If they did that mistake, then I got them. And they will be sued. This should also be interesting to the GNU open sourcers because as far as their "Copyleft" is concerned it has come to my attention that Artificial Intelligence has been ripping off their code, stripping their licenses in the process and making the final outcome theirs. If you're watching the scene, programmers are suing. And rightfully so. I stand by my words, for the unknown entity who may have done this mistake, see you in court! -pjp -- ** all info about me: lynx https://callpeter.tel, dig loc delphinusdns.org **
