From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>
Cc: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>,
"Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@gmail•com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc" <pclouds@gmail•com>,
"git@vger•kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] commit: add tests of commit races
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:54:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4o4th1t.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYFvLWsasWsEevLqugY_Yts5K4e3WRJtKmN4S67F9W6+Q@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:24:35 -0800")
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com> writes:
> Quoting from wikipedia[1]
>
> (note however that when the United States joined the Convention
> in 1988, it continued to make statutory damages and attorney's fees
> only available for registered works).
>
> Does that mean if somebody would infringe the GPL on git (e.g. selling
> a modified git version without giving sources), it would be harder to
> tell him to stop because of the missing attorney's fees in case we drop
> out the copyright notices? (I have no deep understanding of legal
> processes in the US).
No. "registered works" in that sentence is about registering
copyright with U.S. Copyright Office. In-file Copyright circle-c
line does not have much to do with that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-11 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-08 16:13 [PATCH 00/11] Allow reference values to be checked in a transaction Michael Haggerty
2015-02-08 16:13 ` [PATCH 01/11] refs: move REF_DELETING to refs.c Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:09 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-08 16:13 ` [PATCH 02/11] refs: remove the gap in the REF_* constant values Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:14 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-08 16:13 ` [PATCH 03/11] struct ref_update: move "have_old" into "flags" Michael Haggerty
2015-02-08 16:13 ` [PATCH 04/11] ref_transaction_update(): remove "have_old" parameter Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:20 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-11 15:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-08 16:13 ` [PATCH 05/11] ref_transaction_delete(): " Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:22 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 06/11] commit: add tests of commit races Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:31 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-10 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-11 15:05 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-11 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-11 18:24 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-11 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 07/11] commit: avoid race when creating orphan commits Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:35 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-11 15:47 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 08/11] ref_transaction_create(): check that new_sha1 is valid Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:35 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 09/11] ref_transaction_delete(): check that old_sha1 is not null_sha1 Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:37 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 10/11] ref_transaction_verify(): new function to check a reference's value Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:50 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-11 16:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-08 16:14 ` [PATCH 11/11] update_ref(): improve documentation Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 18:51 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-09 18:41 ` [PATCH 00/11] Allow reference values to be checked in a transaction Junio C Hamano
2015-02-09 19:05 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-09 20:40 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-02-09 20:41 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-09 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
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