Re: [Deinterlace-discuss] Posibel gpl violation?

[<ph...@ne...>]

Wow, if Leadtek really did this, then they have really done a bad
thing.  LGPL does not give up rights and ownership of a project to a
corporate entity who decides they need the code to improve their
product. If they really have stripped the license and the copyright(s)=20
from the code, then this is a serious legal offense.  They can
distribute the library and even sell the service of distributing it,
but they can't make closed modifications, remove previous copyrights,
and strip the LGPL.  Unfortunately, I think this happens a lot, but
doesn't get caught very often.

Carefully read the terms of the LGPL (I'm assuming this is the same
license detailed for the direct show filters):=20

http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

Here's FSF's checklist for possible violation of the license
(including LGPL), and what to do:

http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html


Phil

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:48:57PM +0100, Torbj=F6rn Jansson wrote:
> Maybe its not a problem since the filter is lgpl
>=20
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> > Behalf Of Torbj=F6rn Jansson
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:42 PM
> > To: dei...@li...
> > Subject: [Deinterlace-discuss] Posibel gpl violation?
> >=20
> >=20
> > It looks like leadtek has included the direct show=20
> > deinterlace filter in
> > the latest driver package.
> >=20
> > The file is named wfdif.ax but it is not registered by default and i
> > dont think it is used in their program.
> >=20
> > The version strings in the file says "Copyright (C) 2001-2003. Leadte=
k
> > Research Inc." but if i open the file with reshack and take a look at
> > the dialog boxes i find one of the dialog boxes that is in our direct
> > show filter.
> >=20
> > The text DScaler can be found in the dialog box.
> >=20
> > It looks like they have disabled the property page for the filter
> > without removing the dialogbox resource.
> >=20
> >=20
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Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR
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