ip claims?

[Hasan Aljudy]

Stephan Diehl wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>> Well sure it's legally correct .. (or well, who knows, maybe not .. 
>>> I'm not a lawyer), but that's exactly my point; why does it have to 
>>> be hard to understand if it needs to be legally correct?
>>
>> I'm not seeing what's hard to understand about it.
> 
> I'm not a native english speaker as well and I didn't get it right as 
> well. Over the weekend, I had asked some (non native speakers as well) 
> people, if they had a look at D and they said that they didn't, because 
> they thought, that the intention of this paragraph was exactly the 
> oposite: that by using D one would be Walters slave forever :-)
> After rereading it, I thought, it would mean that, whenever I thought 
> that I would have a claim to any parts of D, I had to speak up 
> immediatelly (and not wait until there is some money in it).
> So, basicly, yes, somehow, the sentence is hard to understand (for a non 
> native speaker)

My first impression when I read it was (besides confusion) that it means 
if I find anyone (falsely) claiming that he has intellectual rights over 
D, I must report him over!!