Re: Elonex ONE+

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> You need to brush up on your copyright law then. I have a copyright on
>
No, I don't think so.
> copyrighted work to a third party (say, you), *you and only you* have
> the right to ask for the source code. As they have not distributed the
>
And I have.
> copyrighted work to me, I have no right to ask for the code, even
> though I own the copyright to AbiWord.
>
So?
> If they refuse to provide *you* a copy of the software, I as copyright
> holder have legal recourse against them for violation of my copyright.
>
Precisely. You have recourse. I don't. The problem would be that it
appears so far that they
*have not* conveyed it to me under the GPL. Assuming they don't offer
it all up of
course - notwithstanding the lack of notices etc.

If they *should* convey it to me under the GPL, but they *don't*, then I
can hardly
enforce my rights under the GPL, because I don't have any.

And that was my point.

I don't have a lot of rights until they agree with me that they supplied
to me under terms of the
GPL. Since they appear outwardly at present to be in breach, that's moot.

James

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Received on Mon Aug 18 20:53:45 2008