On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:10:03AM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, violating a contract and making the data > available doesn't make the data public domain. Richard Fairhurst pointed out […] > A quick talk with a friend who is a lawyer made abundantly clear that third > parties don't have the right to access the data in the first place, since > the data was "stolen" through a contract breach in the first place. It would > be very very difficult to plead good faith in this case.
Thanks, I appreciate your efforts to check these things. > Then again, we are talking about one aspect of the licence which may be used > since it depends on your jurisdiction and the sets of law governing your > jurisdiction. It will be very different in France where the concept of moral > rights cannot be removed from someone. Copyrights and other "intellectual > property" mechanisms will vary very strongly between countries. I recall somewhere that we are asked to waive our moral rights, which I think can be done in the UK but I believe is unnecessary, and should not be part of the license or the contributor terms. I really have to read back on this though, I could be very wrong. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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