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It would be nice if their email workedIt would be nice if their email workedPosted Jul 25, 2004 13:03 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: It would be nice if their email worked by dlang Parent article: OLS: Enforcing the GPL dlang wrote, "you can only enforce the copyright and therefor the GPL on code that you have the copyright on." While that is true in a strict sense, section N (N=3 IIRC) provides a little more leverage. Having violated your copyright, they have lost the right to distribute your code. To regain that right, they have to satisfy whatever conditions the judge agrees to let you enforce. One such condition may be that they release source to all the code linked with yours. Another might be that they pay for your lawyer, and other expenses. Another might be that they make a substantial donation to the FSF. Another might be that they pay extra damages to you for having made you bring the whole thing to court, instead of doing the right thing when it was brought to their attention. It would not be unreasonable to ask for all of those, and a public apology besides.
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