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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 02:01 PM EDT |
In receiving the copy, the user has been given a limited amount of copyright as
well. They have the right to distribute further copies, with or without
modifications of their own. That gives them (conceivably) standing to sue for
required parts that were omitted in the original distribution - the same way
that individual users can demand the source when they have received GPL code
that did not come with the source.
It is certainly clearer, and more clearly aligned with tradition use of
copyright, to have the original owner of the copyright (copyleft) be the one
that sues, but it is not proven in court that they are the only ones that can do
so. There might also be far less scope for the degree of penalty that a user
could demand, possibly that could be increased by a class action suit.
John Macdonald[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Given by whom? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT
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