LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data

LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data

Posted Jan 20, 2010 19:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data by JoeBuck
Parent article: LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data

The only difference between this kind of unknowing infringement, and blatant, conscious infringement is that courts usually don't impose punitive damages on an unknowing infringer. Either way, the problem has to be corrected.

As far as the courts are concerned, this is true. However it's always important to keep in mind that you want friends, not enemies, and friends always try to forgive and work out compromises. It's just a matter of good ethics, sanity, and practicality that you avoid punishing people for mistakes and work with them to resolve the issues. If a compromise can't be found then the court system is the last resort and certainly a justifiable path to take.

Of course if somebody is being blatant or is knowingly violating the copyrights then that is another story.

Not that I think that you are advocating being a hard-ass about it or anything, I just like to point out things like this. Just for clarification. :)

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