Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:19 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:27:02PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:08:32PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > My understanding of the relevant case law in the United States is that > > these types of restrictions are not allowed under copyright law itself. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:23:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Actually your license is simply irrelevant in most of thre world. You > > aren't allowed to forbid reverse engineering for interoperability. > > "Judge, I want to violate this license on this product that I got > for free because it's not free enough". > > "Judge, we give it out for free and we also developed technology > to transfer the data out of our product and into a GPLed product, > we do that at our expense and even host the competing GPLed repos > for free and they still want to violate the license" > > Who do you think is going to win that one? >...
"Judge, our current German copyright law explicitely states that such a clause is void."
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
cu Adrian
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