On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Temia Eszteri <lamial...@cleverpun.com> wrote: > And you know what? Leighton was right to threaten legal action. What > you did was not only in violation of his IP, but also multiple data > theft laws.
As far as copyright goes, it was open source, so he's allowed to continue making modifications. I don't think Luke had any patents. There might be something with stealing the name "PyJS" (which was, AFAIK, used as a synonym for "PyJamas") -- apparently "common law trademark" is a thing. Otherwise... The domain was apparently not directly owned by Luke (but pointed to a server luke administered), and its transfer was apparently consensual. It seems like nearly every evil thing the hijacker did is legally permissible. The one other thing was the way he created the new mailing list might not have been legal, apparently. (See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-May/1291804.html ). -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
