Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:16:45 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules |
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:59AM -0600, Jonathan A. George wrote: >... > ** As noted previously it would be interested to see the opinion of a > U.S. IP lawyer who has conclusively tested the impact of copy right law > where the boundary of what constitutes a derivative work was explicitly > stated by a federal judge. >...
Why is only the opinion of an US lawyer important?
E.g. if you distribute something in Germany and a German kernel developer thinks the code you distribute violates the licence of a part of the kernel he has the copyright on German copyright law applies - and German copyright law is quite different from US copyright law.
cu Adrian
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