Re: [linux-usb-devel] New, yet unsupported USB-Ethernet adaptor

["Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>]

Hi,

is anyone already on that issue?
Delock will send me a testdevice, I'll migrate the code to the new
usbnet framework then. Fixing the copyrights shouldn't be such a
problem there :)

Markus

On 6 May 2006 19:23:11 -0400, linux@horizon.com <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
> >>> Correct.  He is violating the license in a number of ways, though it
> >>> probably isn't totally intentional.
> >>
> >> Removing copyright and licence statements can't have been anything BUT
> >> intentional.
> >>
> >> That's really a basic rule, pretty much a "programming 101" thing.  You
> >> know, like "test your code", "don't remove other folks' copyrights",
> >> "don't try to change the licence on code copyrighted by someone else".
>
> That's programming 101 in a litigous country.  Some people are lucky
> enough to live in places where the law is treated with the respect
> it deserves.
>
> > Well, I suspect that poor soul did not know what (s)he was doing. They
> > are clearly trying to do the right thing... just paste back original
> > copyrights and be done with it.
>
> > No need to pull them into the loop, I'd say. What they done is wrong,
> > but we can correct it without their help.
>
> I'm with Pavel.  This was probably done by some underpaid junior coder
> in Bangalore who is utterly innocent of law, much less international law.
>
> The point is, they didn't try to claim it's proprietary and a trade secret.
> Misplacing the credit is very rude, but also easily fixable, especially
> once the duplicate code is properly factored out.
>
> A mention of "you shouldn't do that" is appropriate, but harassing a party
> who's basically being cooperative is unnecessary and counterproductive.
>
> A lot of expensive stonewalling in courts is caused by the fact that
> it's dangerous to admit that you did anything wrong; it has very little
> benefit, and lawyers proceed to just twist it into "and what else *aren't*
> they admitting to?"  Unless you want to encourage that behaviour,
> please don't make their lawyers regret that they let the source code
> out with the incriminating lack-of-comments.  Just fix it and move on.
>
> Save your righteous ire for the hard cases at gpl-violations.org.
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Markus Rechberger