On Sunday 09 August 2009 12:41:26 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Saturday, August 8, 2009, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Raymond Martin wrote:
> > > On Saturday 08 August 2009 13:25:09 you wrote:
> > >> I know this sort of thing is easily overlooked, but it's probably
> > >> illegal and certainly unethical to redistribute someone else's work
> > >> without attribution (a basic necessity of copyright which the GPL
> > >> doesn't disclaim).
> > >
> > > No it is not illegal at all. The only things required are those in the
> > > GPL, nothing else matters.
> >
> > Copyright law does; after all, that's the only thing that makes the
> > GPL work. But I'm happy to admit that I'm quite unclear on this
> > point, namely whether it's technically legal (even if offensively bad
> > form) to redistribute binaries of a GPL'd work without any of the
> > attribution that is required in redistributing the source code. I'd
> > be interested in any more information about this. (Preferably not
> > from you -- you've asserted too many wrong or disputable opinions as
> > if they were fact for me to give any credibility to anything you write
> > -- but other citations would be of interest.)
>
> There is not a single "copyright law", but as many laws as countries. But
> if you mean that the copyright attribution is a requirement from the Berne
> Convention, I think that you may be right.
>
> "Copyright. Examples and explanations", by Stephen M. McJohn. Page 262
> http://books.google.com/books?id=Gq9VbEQnxaQC&lpg=PA262&pg=PA262
>
> Anyway, the GPL license does not explicitly require the attribution, unlike
> some other licenses like BSD and CC-By. Why should be explicitly required
> if it were a right granted by the law applicable in any state?
>
> The undeniable fact is that failing to properly recognize the authorship of
> some work is very ugly, and people showing such disrespect is a candidate
> for public blame. I'm not talking about you. In my experience when I've
> contributed to some project, I've almost always been credited. I'm not
> going to sue anybody that failed to do so, but they risk to face public
> embarrassment some day.
When are people going to stop sending spam to this list.
Give up people. Let these threads die already.
Raymond
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