Re: [Deinterlace-discuss] Posibel gpl violation?

[Peter G. <pe...@el...>]

This is GREAT! Mow we know 2 companies who steel deinterlace.ax, and 
personally I like it. This means the filter is really useful.
However, I appreciate they put a link to DScaler website and leave 
copyright notice intact.
I agree with John, let's consider presumption of innocence. Maybe 
Leadtek guys are really stupid and don't know what LGPL means. John 
already has experience explaning licensing issues to Hauppauge. Hope he 
can do it once again, but this can become really annoying. Let's put an 
explanation on the website. We should define explicitly how companies 
can districute deinterlace.ax with their products, what words they have 
to put in documentation, readme, license agreement, about box, etc. At 
least this will enable us to blame such ignorant companies for violating 
our copyright.

Cheers,
  Peter

John Adcock wrote:

>>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)
>>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.
>>
>
>From Torbjorn discription this is exactly what they have done.  But let's
>not be too hasty in attacking them yet.  It looks like the same thing that
>happened with Hauppauge has happened again. I'll try and find a contact
>e-mail when their site is up again.  I expect this will be resolved ina
>similar as with Hauppage and they will comply once they are told they have
>done something wrong.
>
>>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
>>
>
>The only people who are able to do anything about a violation is us the
>copyright holders.  If we get nowhere or get a brush off we will try the
>tried and tested approach of posting this to slashdot.
>
>John
>
>
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