Re: Dell vs. GPL

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:57:45 +0100


> So, in the UK, you lose some (non-transferable) moral rights by virtue
> of it being a computer program, but not all moral rights. In
> particular you don't have the moral right to be identified as author
> or director of the work, or the right to object to derogatory
> treatment of the work.

Now go back and read the URL Richard posted:

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l26027.htm

particularly (7). Next, you need to find out what happened when this
later piece of law got passed through parliament:

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19923233_en_5.htm

Note that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 seems to have
been ammended.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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