Re: Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Under US copyright law, I and any other author am in fact granted a
> number of specific rights, and are legally empowered to enforce those
> rights under numerous civil and criminal actions. [...]
Sure. A good faith attempt was made to resolve this in the past,
according to Bill Allombert, and it was ignored. Many courts will
not entertain attempts to enforce your rights against a party who
has offered to comply. "Submarining" is a trick with patents, not
applicable to copyright. This offer was not addressed in this rant.
> This was the area I didn't want to go into in an earlier response to
> Maynerd's grossly ignorant and misinformed post:
I think this childish namecalling illustrates why some developers
want to remove Karsten M. Self's work from debian. I'm all for doing
the minimum possible to avoid abusive copyright holders.
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