Sveasoft

[Ben Finney]

On 18-Feb-2005, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> "News 09-12-2004 (future news will be in my Slashdot Journal [2]):
> James Ewing did it again: he phoned/emailed the hosting company of
> streamfire.net and claimed that Nick (owner of the domain) was hosting
> illegal copies of Sveasoft firmware.  Which, as we know, isn't true
> since the software is under GPL. However the company doesn't seem to
> have heard the word GPL yet, let alone understood what it means so they
> reacted by taking the (entire!) domain offline.
> [...]
> 
> Does someone have time to take a deeper look at this or know already
> more about this? A lot of people seem to be really confused about the
> GNU GPL. 

Worse, a lot of countries have laws that force ISPs to react to a mere
unsubstantiated claim of copyright violation, without notifying their
customer.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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