On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:45 PM, doark@mail.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:15:26 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
thus sadly they no longer have the right to distribute the FP2. or future products. if they continue to do so they will be operating as an illegal criminal cartel (an Organised Crime Syndicate) *not* a Cooperative.
Does this refer to their "US Legal rights" to distribute their products or that we should not give them the right to distribute their products to us by virtue of a purchase?
it's copyright law, plain and simple. if you violate the GPLv2 you lose all distribution rights. if you then *continue* to distribute without those rights, you are in criminal infringement of copyright law. if a *company* continues to do that, the company is breaking the law. if a company is breaking the law, it is no longer a company, it is a criminal cartel. it's a simple chain. many people have pointed out however a flaw in this logic, that copyright is a civil offense not a criminal offense.
l.