Re: Dell vs. GPL

[Andre Hedrick]

Everyone else general talks out of their hat and not from a truly informed
position.  I will qualify the statement, having paid for legal advise from
lawyers who specialize in the field of technology, copyright, and patent
law.

When they tell you they will not open a case on your behalf until a
registered copyright is in hand, that point real hard.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On 30 Jun 2003, Miles Bader wrote:

> Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]> writes:
> > I know first hand that I can not take "RAIDZONE" to court yet to sue for
> > GPL violation to get the code back into the community and monetary
> > damages, until I fully file a registered copyright and not the halfassed
> > crap of just sticking you name and email address in a file.
> > 
> > GPL wins great.
> > GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets
> > serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source.
> 
> Even if you are right about the need to register (I have no idea, though
> everyone else seems to say otherwise), this seems like a bizarre
> conclusion.  If the problem is the lack of proper copyright
> registration, how would changing the license make the least bit of
> difference?
> 
> -Miles
> -- 
> `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
>  that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
>  less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]
>