Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-18 Thread Implausibility
Apologies for the interruption, however, the claim of violation of of Copyright infringement is... I'll use the word... dubious. https://blog.delphinusdns.org/c?article=1717456278 "I heard through a psychic tarot reader that someone sold delphinusdnsd and possibly put their name on it. " All

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:08:45 +0100, Florian Obser wrote: > > On 2024-06-07 12:04 +02, "Peter N. M. Hansteen" wrote: > > I tend to summarize along the lines of "BSD licensed means you can do > > whatever > > you damned well please with the code except claim that you wrote it all > > yourself" >

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:48:45 +0100, Stuart Longland wrote: > > GPL means they have to share changes they make with the person > "receiving" the binaries (which includes the end user, since they were > shipped the binaries stored on the boot device in said appliance). As > the copyright holder, yo

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Florian Obser
On 2024-06-07 12:04 +02, "Peter N. M. Hansteen" wrote: > I tend to summarize along the lines of "BSD licensed means you can do whatever > you damned well please with the code except claim that you wrote it all > yourself" And this is why I get very grumpy when things like copilot steal my code.

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-06-06, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > if the outcome may be that the Copyright does not protect my works > and its license then there is no need to retain a license at the top of every > source file at all. Without a license the default position in many jurisdictions is "this is cop

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 07:48:45PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > > BSD means they don't have to share the changes they made, or even the > original code. The only thing they cannot legally do, is change the > copyright on the code, which as some have pointed out, is a tough thing to > prove. M

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Stuart Longland
On 7/6/24 18:32, Jan Stary wrote: To be clear: I can sell delphinusdnsd-1.8.0.tar.gz to anyone stupid enough to buy it, right? It even works for GPLv2 software. There's more "smart TV"s and set-top boxes running Linux than you can point an IR remote at. GPL means they have to share changes

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 10:32:42AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > The company who bought the scam sell, really bought something worthless > > because there is an open source version and possibly better than what they > > have as time goes forward (in my perspective). > > That's what I don't understan

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-07 Thread Jan Stary
> The company who bought the scam sell, really bought something worthless > because there is an open source version and possibly better than what they > have as time goes forward (in my perspective). That's what I don't understand. If someone sold your open source DNS server, they mostly scammed t

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:39:30PM +0700, hahahahacker2009 wrote: > > It should interest OpenBSD in one form or another since i used the same > > Copyright and License as them, > > > > No, as many people already said. > Sure. I can see how it would not interest you if you are a lazy sysadmin wi

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Justin Yates Fletcher
On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 12:10 +0100, Kirill A.Korinsky wrote: > > This door has already been opened, and the most notable case I > suppose is > that Linux developers took some code from BSD and put GPL on it: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=117572345902445&w=2 > Just to clarify this point,

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread hahahahacker2009
Vào Th 5, 6 thg 6, 2024 vào lúc 09:41 Peter J. Philipp đã viết: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:59:01PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:08:23 +0100, > > "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > > > > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > > >

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 03:47:41PM +0200, Mizsei Zolt??n wrote: > Have you thought about what if they paid not for the software but for the > support? This is fine, this is within the bounds of the license. I'm *only* interested if someone messed with the license, and I think if we as open sourc

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Mizsei Zoltán
Have you thought about what if they paid not for the software but for the support? Peter J. Philipp írta 2024. jún.. 6, Cs-n 15:29 órakor: > On 6/6/24 13:10, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: >> On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:33:53 +0100, >> "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: >>> This isn't about Patents, this is about

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On 6/6/24 13:10, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:33:53 +0100, "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: This isn't about Patents, this is about Copyright. And that's the sole interest of mine, and Lawyers are there for a reason. It should interest OpenBSD in one form or another since i use

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-06 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:33:53 +0100, "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > This isn't about Patents, this is about Copyright. And that's the sole > interest of mine, and Lawyers are there for a reason. It should interest > OpenBSD in one form or another since i used the same Copyright and License > a

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:33:39 +0200 "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 08:04:49AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2024-06-05, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source cod

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:59:01PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:08:23 +0100, > "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. > >

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:08:23 +0100, "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. > I have no proof of this personally but I ask you to help me find evidence of >

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 08:04:49AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024-06-05, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. > > There is nothing in either the

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread tetrosalame
Il 05/06/2024 07:08, Peter J. Philipp ha scritto: Hi, I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. [...] Thanks for any information leading to the lawsuit. I believe I will also get in c

Re: Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-06-05, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. There is nothing in either the ISC license used in OpenBSD (or in the GNU public license for that matter),

Open Source / BSD License Copyright infringements

2024-06-04 Thread Peter J. Philipp
Hi, I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money. I have no proof of this personally but I ask you to help me find evidence of this. There is not much I can do about this, except if the person or