On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:41:26PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Well, by the nature of free software, I can incorporate code into my > program from yours (or into a friend's program, eg. writing a patch for > lftp incorporating code from wget), without you necessarily being made > aware of it at all. It's not hard for an original author to legitimately > not become aware of such reuse for a long time. The "contributor" > of code isn't necessarily the copyright holder.
True. Though I imagine a judge would be rather at amused some contributor who thought they could sue someone else for copyright violation for running a program that incorporated their GPLed code. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
