[Info-vax] [Attn: HP Employees] PDP-11 OS hobbyist licensing

[JF Mezei]

On 13-10-03 02:41, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> I think you seriously misunderstand the entire concept.  If HP owns the 
> copyright, and HP decides not to respond, this does not weaken their 
> claim to copyright.

If I write to HP, asking HP to confirm whether they still have the
copyright originally held by Digital and they do not respond, what do I do ?

"hello, are you the ones to whom I need to send money if I wish to have
right to use the source code ?"  If HP doesn't reply, can then then come
back to me with a lawsuit accusing me of copyright infringement ?

If I show the judge that I did due diligence, and had leads pointing to
HP, but HP did not respond, do you really think the judge will look that
kindly at HP's lawsuit against me ?

If you write a final request to HP, stating that due to lack of
response, this is to be your last request and that if HP does not repond
within X days (where X might be 45 or something like that), you will
assume that HP will not exert any rights over the PDP 11 software and
grant me implicit permission to use the sourse, and HP does not respond,
how do you think a judge would side ?