[ros-dev] Re: Copyright notices

[Rafal Kupiec]

I think, now we're not violating the GPL.
for eg:
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hostilix/trunk/Sources/apps/notepad/dialog.c?op=diff&rev=0&sc=1


Quandary wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
> http://mail.yahoo.com