[Asterisk-Dev] code theft again?

Tilghman Lesher tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com
Wed Jul 13 08:37:08 MST 2005


On Wednesday 13 July 2005 01:20, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:12:19AM -0500, Steven wrote:
> > It would be
> > very easy for a large number of us to file suit in our jurisdiction
> > simultaneously. Even if we didn't prosecute hard, the cost of
> > defending a 30-50 lawsuits in 20 or more jurisdictions would
> > bankrupt a smallish business, or at least force them to come clean
> > quickly.
>
> Call me naive, but I'd mainly like to see companies copmplying with
> the license (and contributing their changes back to the community).
> Law suits are just one way of forcing them to do so. They should be
> used as a last resort *after* the company has been contacted and has
> been made aware of the fact that complying with the license isn't
> normaly that difficult.

How, pray tell, are we going to know when to do that if Digium is not
keeping us in the loop with respect to individual company negotiations?

-- 
Tilghman



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