Re: Dell vs. GPL

Matthias Schniedermeyer (ms@citd.de)
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:02:15 +0200


On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > Indeed. Those people don't realise that their "copyright" law is different to
> > the almost the rest of the world.
>
> > In most of Europe there in no "The Copyright", but "authors' or
> > moral rights" ("derechos de autor", "droit d'auteur") and
> > "exploitation rights" (or economic rights).
>
> > Author/moral rights cannot be jeopardized.
>
> Except when the work is a computer program. Check the law sometime!

You have mixed that with PATENT law.

Bis denn

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