[ros-dev] Copyright notices

[Quandary]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Eric Kohl
wrote:
> Lucio Diaz wrote:
> >Third post, but, i downloaded their source code,
> >and it seems the original copyright notices are
> >there, so they are not violating the GNU licence.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Lucio Diaz.
> 
> The Hostilix 'developers' are still guilty of
> willful misrepresentation of the copyright because
> 1) They added their copyright to otherwise unchanged
> files and 2) they can only claim a copyright for the
> year 2005 but not from 1999 to 2005.
> 
> So they are still violating the GPL.

They aren't violating the GPL by misrepresentation
(per se); they're (likely) violating the underlying
copyright law by making a false claim to ownership.
There's a subtle difference ;).

-- Travis


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