On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:19:07AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Nils Hammerfest <nils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Now what happens? Of course the intial release was wrong and there will be legal consequences, no question. But what about the derived works and their derived works? > > there is no single answer to this. it would depend on national laws > (which vary) and it would depend on the particular case at hand. there > are examples i can imagine where in US law, the derived work would > immediately become as illegal as the initial work, but the > distributor(s) of the derived work would not have any liability. there > are other examples i can imagine where they clearly would. > This sounds similar to the Novell/SCO lawsuit against Linux some years ago. Novell claimed that there were Unix headers in Linux, thus they owned Linux. As I recall, Linus fought it and won the suit. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
