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About Lefty
Director of Open Source Technologies for ACCESS, the largest Japanese provider of mobile device software. I'm a member of the LiMo Foundation's Architectural Steering Committee and chair of the Foundation's Open Source Committee; FSF-Europe Legal and Licensing Network; GNOME Foundation Advisory Board.
I present and appear on panels regularly, in venues including LinuxWorld, JaveOne, GUADEC, the Linux Symposium, FOSTEL, Interop, eComm, Open Source in Mobile, OSCON and others. I am a winner of the 2008 "Golden Penguin Bowl" trivia contest, and I've seen more horror movies than you have.
For fun, I explore places I haven't been, do photography and (lately) videography, study Japanese and create digital artwork.
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And Another Thing! (as David "Lefty" Schlesinger)
Only the author, i.e. the person whose name is on the copyright line (legitimately) owns the code. If a company were, say, to take GPL code, use it in a product which they shipped to consumers, and fail to provide the source code, the author could go after the company for copyright infringement, and the case there is extremely clearcut: the organization has infringed on the author's copyright. (Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org, and the author of iptables, has gone after a number of companies, successfully...)
Consumers who received the device could (as AFPA did in France) go to court to force the vendor to adhere to the terms of the GPL, but they would not have the legal standing to make a copyright infringement claim...
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