Re: [Deinterlace-discuss] Posibel gpl violation?

[Mark R. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi,

An explicit explanation on the DScaler website is an excellent idea!

Thanks,
Mark Rejhon

Peter Gubanov wrote:
> 
> 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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