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Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?
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John Hasler |
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Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!? |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:06:55 -0500 |
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Tim Tyler writes:
> What proportion of OSS developers register their work with the United
> States Copyright Office, I wonder.
If the infringement is ongoing you just have to register before filing
suit.
> Also, how often does $150,000 actually get awarded in free software
> cases?
It doesn't matter if the software is free. The damages are _statutory_.
You prove infringement you get the damages.
> The article at the top seems to say that getting very much in the way of
> damages is unlikely - since the cost of the software is low:
The GPL provides that the license terminates immediately upon breach.
Therefor if the violation is ungoing proving breach of the GPL will give
you grounds for a copyright infringement complaint. Statutory damages do
not depend on cost. Also note that many Free Software authors are more
interested in getting the infringement stopped than in collecting large
damages.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, (continued)
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Alexander Terekhov, 2007/08/29
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Arnoud Engelfriet, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, John Hasler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?,
John Hasler <=
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, John Hasler, 2007/08/27
- Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/27
Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28
Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?, Tim Tyler, 2007/08/28