On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:08, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 08-Aug-07, at 4:54 PM, jtd wrote:
However its not D-Link am talking of.
why the secrecy - MTNL and starcom?
So that you dont get sued for slander or whatever a false accusation is called in legalese.
it is called defamation - and in case you are interested, even a true accusation can be defamatory. And a false accusation may not be defamatory. It is the motivation for the accusation that is important. In this case, the accusation - true or false - is made in public interest after a reasonable attempt at verification, so it is not defamatory.
Ok. That is very interesting. So we can disclose names if we have made "reasonable" attempts to verify the facts. in the case of gpl violations - we have verified that the binaries are gpl - will the abscence of an offer for source code on the website (or written offer like dlink) be construed as sufficient verification?