Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.9 and the GPL Buyout | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:04:32 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:27 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > We are adopting Federal Copyright and Trademark law, and Federal Patent > law into our courts. We are also enacting trade secret laws that make it > easier for folks to claim trade secrets on Open Source code for > individual authors.
Why? You're not a signatory to the Berne Convention and thus surely you don't need to honour it? You can just re-use the GPL'd code without our permission, and make your law permit it. You could adopt US copyright law with exceptions for the Linux kernel. There's precedent for such exceptions -- see what the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 has to say about Peter Pan, for example: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_28.htm#sdiv6
And enacting the US patent law is absurd -- why would you want to copy something as broken and abusable as that?
-- dwmw2
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