Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 09:47 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> People doing this should be aware that you're probably waiving certain >> damage provisions in US copyright law should you ever sue someone in >> the US for violating the license on the Debian packaging, at least so >> far as I understand US copyright law. (I am not a lawyer and this is >> not legal advice for your specific situation.) > Could you give some more details about this? I hadn't heard of it yet. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/401: (d) Evidentiary Weight of Notice.— If a notice of copyright in the form and position specified by this section appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant’s interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in the last sentence of section 504(c)(2). Also see https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf, specifically "Advantages to Using a Copyright Notice" starting on page 3. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
