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Article #1295Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00
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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes: >In article <F0E6wp.oI@a2e.de> phm@a2e.de "PILCH Hartmut" writes: >> I am assuming that Open Source software, even if it comes under the GPL, >> will contain lots of parts that are reused in closed-source programs. >This is only possible if they break the law. without anybody standing the slightest chance of convicting them. I wrote in a week's work a useful input table for Japanese writing that didn't exist before. Of course it's GPLed, but that is merely symbolic. How can I prove that the array they are using is mine? Maybe by mixing in some wrong value pairs and hoping that they make their way into the first version that is released? Recently a company published a CDROM with all German telephone book data. They must have gotten them from the Telekom's publications. The Telekom claimed copyright (they were marketing the same data for several 1000 DM per CD) and sued the "pirates", but failed. -- Hartmut Pilch http://www.a2e.de/phm/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/07 Message-ID: <F0H99L.77C@a2e.de> X-Deja-AN: 399891369 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <F0CBvu.oE@a2e.de> <6vakpb$j1h$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <F0E6wp.oI@a2e.de> <907713607snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> Organization: Asia-Europa Sprachendienste Pilch und Wang Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.politics.misc,uk.politics.economics,gnu.misc.discuss