discuss: Thread: Copyright Violation of 'Linux Dictionary'

Subject: Copyright Violation of 'Linux Dictionary'
From: Binh ####@####.####
Date: 12 May 2004 00:42:33 -0000
Message-Id: <20040512004206.77823.qmail@web60207.mail.yahoo.com>

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Yours Sincerely,
Binh Nguyen.

Subject: Re: Copyright Violation of 'Linux Dictionary'
From: Jesse Meyer ####@####.####
Date: 12 May 2004 08:53:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20040512085311.GA15205@pong.lan>

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Binh Nguyen wrote:

> My name is Binh Nguyen, original author of the 'Linux
> Dictionary' guide over at www.tldp.org. On the 6 May I
> became aware of a copyright violation of my work. On
> this day I sent out one warning via their web
> interface.
>
> [ ... snip ... ]
>
> * the precise name of the product
> 'Linux Dictionary',
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
> 
> * the name of the person or organization distributing
> it
> 
>
> [ ... snip ...]
> 
>    Administrative Contact -
>         Scott Baust -  ####@####.####
>         Digital Environments, Inc
>         422 SW 9th St
>         Boca Raton, FL 33432
>         US
>         Phone -  561-620-0779
>         Fax -

I am not a lawyer, but under US Law, isn't it possible to send a 
letter to the ISP claiming copyrighted material and have the site 
shutdown (assuming they don't contest the claim).

You might want to investigate that.

Jesse Meyer

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<type 'exceptions.IOError'>

Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sat Jul 6 04:40:21 2024

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/<string> in ()

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main()

424

425 if path is not None:

426 main_path(path)

427 else:

428 main_form()

global main_form = <function main_form at 0x8f3fc6c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form()

378 except ImportError:

379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")

380 module.do(ctxt)

381

382 def main():

module = <module 'commands.showthread' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x8f49684>, global ctxt = {'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in do(ctxt={'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'})

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x8f3f1ec>, ctxt = {'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in do_list(ctxt={'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, name='msgs', perpage=10, values=[{'author': u'Binh Nguyen', 'authorid': 'kdlafegngoikhcpbhlid', 'date': '12 May 2004 00:42:33 -0000', 'month': 200405, 'msgnum': 7267, 'subject': u"Copyright Violation of 'Linux Dictionary'", 'threadid': 'efdgghbhjmdpaahaijfc', 'timestamp': 1084322553.0}, {'author': u'Jesse Meyer', 'authorid': 'ehojccfdnblcenikjhgd', 'date': '12 May 2004 08:53:42 -0000', 'month': 200405, 'msgnum': 7268, 'subject': u"Re: Copyright Violation of 'Linux Dictionary'", 'threadid': 'efdgghbhjmdpaahaijfc', 'timestamp': 1084352022.0}], peritem=<function <lambda> at 0x8f4980c>)

128 write(template % ctxt)

129 if peritem:

130 peritem()

131 ctxt[ROW] += 1

132

peritem = <function <lambda> at 0x8f4980c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in ()

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=7268)

229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)

230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)

231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)

232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)

233 ctxt.pop()

global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8f3f1b4>, ctxt = {'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8f9eecc>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8f9eecc>, partnum=1)

205 else:

206 for p in part.get_payload():

207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8f3f1b4>, ctxt = {'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8fa3f4c>

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)

211 return partnum

212

global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x8f3f144>, ctxt = {'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8fa3f4c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVER': 'glitch', 'HTTP_REFE...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8fa3f4c>)

164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()

165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()

166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))

167 if not template:

168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])

global template = <function template at 0x8f37e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x8f37ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8fa64b8>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature')

40

41 def html(name):

42 return template(name + '.html')

43

44 def xml(name):

global template = <function template at 0x8f37e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html')

31 except IOError:

32 if not _template_zipfile:

33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])

34 try:

35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()

global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8ed0a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20']

/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8f9eccc>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False)

337 self.filename = file

338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}

339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])

340 else:

341 self._filePassed = 1

self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8f9eccc>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r'

<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
      args = (2, 'No such file or directory')
      errno = 2
      filename = '-c'
      message = ''
      strerror = 'No such file or directory'