On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:59AM -0600, Jonathan A. George wrote:
>...
> ** As noted previously it would be interested to see the opinion of a
> U.S. IP lawyer who has conclusively tested the impact of copy right law
> where the boundary of what constitutes a derivative work was explicitly
> stated by a federal judge.
>...
Why is only the opinion of an US lawyer important?
E.g. if you distribute something in Germany and a German kernel
developer thinks the code you distribute violates the licence of a part
of the kernel he has the copyright on German copyright law applies - and
German copyright law is quite different from US copyright law.
cu
Adrian
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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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