Resolving Chitech CT-PC89E GPL Copyright Violation

[Neil Brown]

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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 
>  the request has been declined (and illegal conditions added).
> 
>  therefore, chitech is not in compliance with the GPL license.
> 
>  this is illegal.

I would suggest that it might be safer to say that it is an infringement
of copyright, as discussed previously, since it is far from clear that
Chitech's actions are "illegal"?

Overstating the case is unlikely to do anyone any favours - either the
wider Free software community, or the particular case at hand here?

Similarly, I am not aware of any open source developer / compliance unit
seeking a supplier's actions to be prosecuted, for licence
non-compliance, although, as always, I'd be interested in hearing
anything to the contrary on this. (As I read the Skype decision, it was
a civil action, even though the English translations consider Skype to
have been "convicted".)


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Neil

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