video cards

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jeffrey Watts wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> >  Whether civil or criminal is irrelevant: it is still in violation of the
> > law.
>
> There are no injured parties in this circumstance (as the principal
> author has said it's fine), and thus this distinction is critical.

The principal author in this case does not hold a complete copyright on the 
program. There are many copyright holders, and every single one of them 
(including the deceased) needs to give permission to make this legal.