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GPL Hard to Enforce?

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-owns-it dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "The GPL may be difficult to enforce due to a lack of clarity over who owns the copyright to the software, according to a legal expert. Lucie Guibault, an assistant professor of intellectual-property law at the Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, said at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam, that the GPL should clarify who is the author of the software to ensure that open source software distributed under this licence receives legal protection."

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  1. Hard to determine author? by Eric+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean, all those messages I sprinkle in my programs that say "Copyright 2005 Eric Smith" don't give them a hint?

  2. Re:whats in a name by vondo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, google is a publicly owned company. Where are my shares, dammit?

  3. Re:This is why... by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny
    RTFA. From TFA:
    Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of the GPL, was unable to comment in time for this article.
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  4. Re:Stupid stupid article by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any doubts about whose the copyright is?

    SCO's?

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  5. Are you sure? by ravenspear · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, you can't pay someone to come up with schlock this bad.

    You have clearly never read a John Dvorak article.

  6. Re:THE GVMT 0WNS ALL PROPRIETARY CODE by SoloFlyer2 · · Score: 1, Funny
    i for one welcome our new govermental overlord...

    oh wait...

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