On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:56:09AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> Otherwise, it seems to be highly unlikely that anyone will want to sue a
> company that is often located in a different country, and the only
> possible legal action will be cease and desist letters against people
> who are infriding the copyright by e.g. selling Linux distributions
> containing fglrx at Ebay or operating Debian ftp mirrors. That sounds
> highly unfair, but unfortunately it also seems to be the only effective
> way for someone without a big wallet to effectively act against such
> licence violations...
To avoid any misunderstandings:
I do not want to threaten anyone, and I do not plan to do such legal
actions myself.
My point is simply that whoever considers this grey area a good thing
and wants to leave clarifications to the lawyers should be aware that
e.g. in the fglrx and nvidia cases it's quite possible that the target
of legal actions might not be AMD but e.g. the Technical University of
Dresden that is distributing the offending code in Germany [1].
cu
Adrian
[1] by operating ftp.de.debian.org
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