Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263997AbTFHWhK (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:37:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264015AbTFHWhK (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:37:10 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:39050 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263997AbTFHWhJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:37:09 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:48:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Russell King cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G and the GPL In-Reply-To: <20030608225055.E9520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <8FD91C2E-99F1-11D7-A998-000A95689082@gentoo.org> <20030608225055.E9520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1562 Lines: 32 On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:08:39PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > IANAL, but in many coutries the fact that you didn't know is not an > > excuse. When you integrate alien parts in your products you become > > responsible and you have to be sure about all aspects that arise. > > What if, when you obtained said parts, it came with a license which > appeared to be genuine, but in fact was illegally changed in a country > which has not signed up to the copyright treaty? (I believe this may > be part of the story here.) I believe that you'd need a good copyright > lawyer, and it may depend upon local law. I believe that, being the director of a company that will be subject to potential lawsuits in countries that signed up to the copyright treaty, I'll stop buying parts from countries that will not guarantee my company about copyright infringement. Looking their economy to lose huge parts of its business, maybe it'll suggest those countries to join the copyright treaty. Yes those parts might be dirt cheap, but if I have to spend big bucks for lawsuits and if I have to see my company image to lose sharpness, I'd better go picking up parts where at least I can sue back my suppliers in case they'll break copyright in what they did license to me. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/