Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:57:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper |
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Hi!
> > 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".
Its not free at all.
Alan is right, that parts of licence agreement are irrelevant in Europe, and what RMS is suggesting is perfectly legal here. Like it or not. Don't try to make "RMS suggested something ilegal" case. Thanx, Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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