> In general, our legal staff will never approve the use of modified GNU > licensed software. It seems that the WEB is full of trolls which search for > corporations which use GNU licensed software, and have failed to publish or > comply precisely with the license, and either charge us a fortune, make us > publish all of our source code.
The only people who can enforce the copyright on a piece of software (or any other copyrighted thing) are the people who actually hold the copyright on the software. These people are not ’trolls’ - they’re the *owners* of the software. (Perhaps you’re confused with “patent trolls”, who enforce bogus patents on obvious ‘inventions’ - patents that should never have been issued.) I hope your legal staff doesn’t consider Live Networks, Inc. (the company that owns/licenses this software) to be a ’troll’. (If they haven’t done so already, I hope they’ve read: http://live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#copyright-and-license ) Ross Finlayson Live Networks, Inc. http://www.live555.com/ _______________________________________________ live-devel mailing list live-devel@lists.live555.com http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel
