A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code
A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code
Posted May 23, 2016 2:09 UTC (Mon) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)In reply to: A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code by karath
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US law encompasses both civil and criminal varieties of copyright infringement. However, the idea of statutory damages is only applicable to civil cases. Damages—and for that matter niceties like standing and even proportional response—aren't really a factor in criminal cases regardless of jurisdiction, just whether the law was broken and whatever punishment the law prescribes for such offenses.