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Harald Welte on the flood of GPL violationsHarald Welte on the flood of GPL violationsPosted Jun 19, 2006 20:34 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Harald Welte on the flood of GPL violations by JoeBuck Parent article: Harald Welte on the flood of GPL violations
Ya well it's entirely up to the copyright holders to choose weither or not to go after copyright violations.
GPl-violations.org can't do jack without the cooperation from Kernel developers. If the kernel developers say it's ok or refuse to go after gpl violations for binary drivers to access this or that portion of the kernel then there is nothing anybody else can do about it.
At least this is how it is in the US. You can choose to go after this or that violation or not and still retain copyrights. It'll probably weaken your position in court though.
This is why FSF has people transfer their copyrights over to FSF. Without it FSF wouldn't be able to do any sort of copyright license enforcement. They probably could assist people in copyright license violation lawsuites... but it's probably easier the way they do it.
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Harald Welte on the flood of GPL violations Posted Jun 20, 2006 6:00 UTC (Tue) by remijnj (subscriber, #5838) [Link] That's ok because Harald Welte is a kernel developer. He did lots of work on netfilter development and is currently head of the netfilter coreteam. Harald therefore would already be able to go after people who hook binary modules into that.
Harald Welte on the flood of GPL violations Posted Jun 29, 2006 7:39 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] "It'll probably weaken your position in court though."
Yup. In the US it's called "laches", and yes it will weaken your position in court.
In Germany, where Harald is, it's a statutory defence and will *destroy* your position in court. So Harald is forced to pursue violators immediately he finds out (I think it's 60 days), otherwise the law then gives them a free pass...
Cheers,
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