On 6/6/24 13:10, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:33:53 +0100,
"Peter J. Philipp" <[email protected]> wrote:
This isn't about Patents, this is about Copyright. And that's the sole
interest of mine, and Lawyers are there for a reason. It should interest
OpenBSD in one form or another since i used the same Copyright and License
as them, if the outcome may be that the Copyright does not protect my works
and its license then there is no need to retain a license at the top of every
source file at all.
I do not understand how you plan to prove that someone infringed on some
part of your code by removing copyrigths from it and selling it.
Especially if the result is binary and the copyrights are comments in the
source code.
Well the answer is two fold. One the entity who buys the source, may
advertise who they bought it from, who wrote it etc. Comparing the
objdump of that binary will have answers and cross-correlate to me that
certain functionality came from me. Also every unique DNS stack as a
signature, sorta like pf fingerprinting, I could find out from remote
without buying a binary if someone is using my technology.
The second part is, if the entity who bought it, sues me for using
"their" source code. This will reveal all. I will have the Open Source
version until version 1.8 so far. And I will have a open core version
running also on Windows in later versions. Once that happens it will
come to a counter-claim that the actual copy of the plaintiff is the
scam sell. It is really hard for someone to pull this off though,
considering I have a history on github and CVS dating back to the days
of sourceforge.
The company who bought the scam sell, really bought something worthless
because there is an open source version and possibly better than what
they have as time goes forward (in my perspective).
Again, like I said, all I have to go on is hearsay, and I'm looking for a
mistake that the entity did indeed change the license and copyright of the
original source code. If they did that mistake, then I got them. And they
will be sued.
This should also be interesting to the GNU open sourcers because as far as
their "Copyleft" is concerned it has come to my attention that Artificial
Intelligence has been ripping off their code, stripping their licenses in the
process and making the final outcome theirs. If you're watching the scene,
programmers are suing. And rightfully so.
This door has already been opened, and the most notable case I suppose is
that Linux developers took some code from BSD and put GPL on it:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=117572345902445&w=2
Anyway, I have seen more than once when someone puts components under a
different OpenSource license and relicenses them under something else. The
last example that I've seen is bzip3:
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3?tab=readme-ov-file#licensing
Interesting,
-pjp
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