Re: gEDA-user: Re: licensing (GPL or otherwise) for hardware?

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

If you make copies of a Best Selling Novel and sell them your self
without any permission from the author and publisher and don't pay them
then you might as well as just taken their wallet. Yes copyright
infringement can be a form of theft.

for example, see the story..
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/internet.theft/

Steve Meier



David Kuehling wrote:
>>>>>>"Stephen" == Stephen Williams <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>> I believe deceiving for a material profit is a criminal act, but
>>>deceiving for a public benefit is not illegal.
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>>Well, where I live (USA) theft is theft, no matter what the motive.
>>If I rob a bank and give all the money to a church or a charity, I'm
>>still going to jail.
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>Copyright infringement is not related to theft in any way as far as I
>understand US law.
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>Sorry for the trolling, I just couldn't resist :)
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