Probably so

Probably so

Posted Dec 4, 2003 17:57 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract by henriksorensen
Parent article: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

If there are multiple copyright holders enforcing the copyright can be
difficult. Collecting damages without registering the copyright can
also be difficult.

As an example I found a port of the x48 calculator emulator to MacOS X
including some nice changes to the timer. However they didn't abide by
the GPL. I reported the violation to the authors but their email
addresses do not appear to be current. I also reported it to the FSF
but they can't do anything about it. So the license will probably not
be enforced.

---

(Log in to post comments)