[sldev] Continued GPL violations by Openlifegrid.com - Options?

[Gareth Nelson]

The bigger issue is the appearance of being lax. Even if they do
eventually enforce the license terms, if it takes a long time to do
so, then others aren't going to take it seriously. Personally I clamp
down hard and fast on people who violate the GPL on my own work, I
would hope that LL would clamp down hard too.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gordon Wendt wrote:
>> If You haven't already then pop an email off to licensing at lindenlab.com
>> <mailto:licensing at lindenlab.com> as mentioned in the massively article
>> and hope for the best.  On the broader issue, I'm no lawyer but I'm sure
>> the people in LL's legal team realize that selective or nonenforcement
>> of their rights makes it tougher for them to enforce their rights when
>> they choose to
>
> You are probably thinking of trademark law.  Copyright does not have
> much of a concept of laches, because it has an express limitations period.
>
> A court might not be sympathetic if you allowed infringement just to
> increase the damages; such as waiting until a work you knew was
> infringing hit public release to get more out of the lawsuit... but
> other than that, you don't lose much by not enforcing a copyright promptly.
>
> -Jason
>
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