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Statutory damages cover situations where the copyright owner can't prove damages. It would be very hard to establish any "damages" for infringement, so it again boils down to the likelihood that in the remotely unlikely scenario of a claim of GPL violation, the worst that would happen is the content would have to be edited to remove the GPL content added during the conversion. There's an adjustment to the max/min amount of recovery when the infringement is "innocent." It's just so unlikely as to be laughable, even if it is interesting to explore the limits of how the GPL applies. And how many angels do you think can dance on the head of this pin? ![]() |
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Hi Starson17. Thanks for sharing your opinion on this, but could I ask for some clarification?
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Additionally, does it go against the GPL for an end-user to intentionally remove program metadata? I.e. taking out the "OpenOffice.org" references in an OpenOffice.org PDF? I know this thread is dealing with hypotheticals now, but it's been really interesting reading your responses and thank you all for taking the time to respond. Last edited by Stodder; 05-11-2011 at 05:12 PM. |
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The whole point of the GPL is so that people can't take programs that other people have written, make some change to them or incorporate them into something else ('wrapping' in particular) and make the resulting program proprietary. It's not about metadata, stylesheets, or anything else -- just about keeping people from taking a program, claiming it's theirs now, and saying if you want to use it, you have to pay them. The details are more complicated than that (all details are more complicated) but that's how it works out. Metadata doesn't come into it at all. It's just a license, and it just grants rights for what you can do with the source code. If you're not distributing binaries of a GPL-licensed program, it doesn't matter to you at all. By the way, there's nothing "alleged" about it. The author of the program chooses to use the GPL instead of any of a number of other licenses available, as is his right, and so it goes. |
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More importantly, however, I just can't imagine a court concluding that adding limited formatting code (as in a format conversion) would be sufficient for the GPL to apply to non-GPL input content, such as an e-book. Quote:
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One things I would like to point out specifically for Stodder is the GPL is a copyright license. The GPL spells out what rights the author is granting to you for their licensed work under copyright law. While copyright is consistant across most of the work each county can have slight differences and their courts can interpret aspects of the GPL differently. Such as a German court could say the GPL is 100% invalid and un-enforceable (hasn't happended and there has been one German case which upheld the terms of the GPL), while a Canadian court could say the opposite.
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There are dozens of reasons why the GPL is not a problem for converted calibre output. |
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Hi guys,
I don't think I have anymore questions. But thanks again for taking the time to respond. ![]() I'm really enjoying the mobileread forums in general. Stodder. |
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