[Asterisk-Dev] code theft again?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 11:31, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Well, maybe all that can/should be done is to report the suspected
> unauthorized use to Digium and let it go at that.  Unsatisfying to be
> sure but given that Mark and Digium seems to be the final arbitors of
> this, I'm not sure what else there is to do.

So what you're saying is that if Digium doesn't doing anything about
rampant copyright infringement of their code, the other owners of
copyright shouldn't either?  Speaking as a contributor of a rather large
body of code to Asterisk, I don't think that's a wise option.

-- 
Tilghman