> Actually, you should leave checking into this sort of thing to the > copyright holders in general, since they may have made separate > arrangements with the company. (I haven't done so, but it's possible.)
Actually, and rather interestingly, in some countries, Germany most notably, random third parties can inform an infringer that they're infringing on somebody else's rights/trademarks, and go ahead and charge them for the service. There was a big kerfuffle with this happening to Killustrator a few years back. That having been said, there's nothing more fun than wandering into a den of Linux zealots, such as Slashdot, and whispering 'potential GPL violation' and watching the fur fly. Linksys is the current target; supposedly they have Linux cores in some of their products. But, guess what, it might be perfectly legal. Some people, however, choose to believe that using a GPL product means giving away anything your company has ever done, immediately and for free. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Daniel Quinlan > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:11 PM > To: Greg A > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] OT: SCO may have violated GNU > > > Greg A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about this one? > > > > http://www.mailshield.com/products/mailshield/server/whats_new.html > > > > Mailshield now incorporates SpamAssassin and charges heaps of money > > for their product. > > > > Anyone know if that is legal? > > Charging heaps of money is allowed. > > However, they do need to comply with the terms of the Perl Artistic > License *or* the GPL (one or the other, they can't pick and choose terms > from both licenses). > > I should note that *if* there was a license violation, it's not your > problem and you would have no legal cause to take action against > mailshield. Only the copyright holders, myself included, can do that. > Actually, you should leave checking into this sort of thing to the > copyright holders in general, since they may have made separate > arrangements with the company. (I haven't done so, but it's possible.) > > I do appreciate finding out when additional companies start deploying > products based on SpamAssassin, though. Thanks. > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), > Linux, and open > http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ source consulting (looking > for new work) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay > Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: > http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
