Dear Charles Manning, In message <CAE21AQpUuFOAfwRk=7rsQHL5p_EVhiNQUAT4QKY=px0svxo...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > >> 1) If you buy a product containing GPL code, but the company does not > >> supply the code, then - in general - you cannot force the company to > >> supply you with code. You need to get the collaboration of an > >> infringed copyright holder to force the issue. > > > > Just for the record: I'm always willing to help out as such. > > > > One of the problems with pursuing these actions is that it can be > somewhat hard to prove that you have contributed materially to claim > copyright over some code.
I think I should be in a pretty good position to prove that. This is why I always offer help in such situations. > In much of open source though, there have been many major contributors > and even more minor contributors and it can be hard to claim to be a > legitimate copyright holder. In theory, I guess you could claim > copyright on a three line patch, but the harsh reality of lawyer land > would probably want to see something far more substantial. This is one of the reasons why the FSF asks for / recommends copyright assignments, see for example [1]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de A Stanford research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was grati- fying; they got 3,000 responses about three days after the ad came out. All from the same person. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
