Oh, my experience comes from spending thousands of dollars on lawyers while pursuing a copyright infringement case where a client stole the code, lock, stock and barrel. When one spends months in daily contact with lawyers one tends to get a good education on the subject matter at hand.
I just wrote out a long explanation of the law but I decided to delete it. This issue isn't about copyright infringement, a straw horse, and I'm not going to divert off in that direction. The issues remain a) what, if any, value attaching a name to code has and b) what amount of ego is involved. OK, you can go back to playing internet.lawyer now. John On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:17:15 -0500, "Michael E. DiFebbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neon John wrote: >> But I repeat, this is all an irrelevant tempest in a teapot since the >> ONLY thing the maintainers will ever have to do in the even there is >> infringement is remove the infringing code. Period. >> >I've been trying to stay out of this pointless discussion but I can't >let this go by. John, what is your basis for this statement? Are you >aware that section 504(c)(2) of the United States Copyright Act allows >statutory damages of up to $150,000 for willful copyright infringement, >and statutory damages of $750 to $30,000 for non-willful copyright >infringement? > >Sincerely, >Michael DiFebbo >(my real name) --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
