Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Marin David Condic wrote:

> Yeah, but what does that mean?  You make a post to a newsgroup. I reply to
> that post, clipping off various sections - including your name. You get to
> sue me for a million Euros because I copied some part of your work and
> didn't leave your name on it?

Suing for millons of euros is not all that common on this
side of the pond.  Your example is not good, since articles
posted to newsgroups are not "public domain" in the USA
either.

Anyway.  The court would probably just ask you to refrain
from repeating your mistake the first time.  If you repeated
the offence, a Danish judge would probably just let you pay
the "costs" of the case (around 4000 euro).

> Seems kind of impractical to me.

Generally rulings in Danish courts regarding this part of
the copyright law are not different from plain illegal
copying.

Jacob
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