Re: Corel's apt frontend

1999-11-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On 5 Nov 99, at 14:33, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > > I wish other copyright law of other countries was as easy to > > access. > > Germany, for example, here: > > http://www.compuserve.de/recht/gesetze/urhg/ Czech is (or was some time ago) on http://www.krovina.cz/studna/doku

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-09 Thread Matej Cepl
On 7 Dec 99, at 23:10, Richard Makin wrote: > It's an interesting situation, because in countries like Poland you are > explicitly granted with the right to deasemble the program, even if ELA > states the opposite - the Polish law overrules it. I am a Czech lawyer (Czech republic is neighbor to P

Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precede

1999-12-21 Thread Matej Cepl
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG said: > > William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This came up, I believe, in the context of an author revoking the > 'permission to copy' that the GPL grants -- on software that was > previously given out under the GPL. E.g., openssh is based on an old > but fre

Legal analysis of two free licences

1999-12-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I have written an article analyzing two free licences (GNU/GPL & OP/L) under the Czech law (as an example of the very orthodox civil law legal system). It is available on http://www.volny.cz/cepls (text not in English is of no interest to you). Any comments, complaints (inc. on my mistake

Some reading

2000-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, even though I am a lawyer myself, I find the following pages outrageous. Enjoy! :-((( 1) See specially reasons for having patents at all. http://library.findlaw.com/scripts/getfile.pl?FILE=firms/bm/bm0 2&TITLE=Subject&TOPIC=Intellectual%20Property_Patents_1 2) Peace in Europe is foldin

Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being

2000-01-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Sorry, for answering so late, but amount of debian-legal messages is so huge, that I have not find enough time to read it until now. On 20 Dec 99, at 14:48, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:16:56PM +0100, Marketa Ceplova wrote: > > 1) Consideration is defined by my old Emanuel Out