Le mardi 03 mars 2009 à 10:41 -0800, Bill Unruh a écrit : > Well, no, there is a problem. Whether that problem is due to a misreading of > the law, differing laws (Under US, the concept of derivative work is a very > important and strong concept. Publishers have been successfully sued for > using less than > .3% of another work in their work.
> From your comments, it appears that German copyright law does not contain that > concept. Unfortunately all Linux distributions are world wide and have to > worry about the law in many jurisdictions, especially the USA. Indeed, the concept of derived work does not exist in European law. By default, a derived work is a counterfeit. Only when the author allows it (using e.g. a Free Software license) is it allowed at all. -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has been released! : :' : `. `' Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told `- me that if you don't install Lenny, he'd melt your brain.
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