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You can sue for anything you damn well please, that doesn't mean you're going to get anywhere. I'm not a lawyer and can't explain why things are the way they a
by Blackthorn 12y ago
You can sue for anything you damn well please, that doesn't mean you're going to get anywhere.
I'm not a lawyer and can't explain why things are the way they are. I can only inform you that this is the way things have shaked out in the past.
- icebraining 12y agoThen can you point out specific cases when that has happened? Because frankly, it doesn't make sense to me, nor is it my recollection, that a copyright infringement suit can only be won if every single holder is part of the accusation.
- pgaddict 12y agoYou're right - you only need an author whose contributions were (supposedly) infringed. Of course, if you have more of them, covering larger amounts of code, that might help. A prime example is the SFC vs. VMWare lawsuit, where SFC represents a single contributor to Linux Kernel (Christoph Hellwig). https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/