On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:36:51 +0100, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disclaimer: > I did never use BK and I do not plan to use it.
Same here, but just because I'm not a developer ;-) [...] > I don't know about copyright law in other countries (and the USA have > both a pretty different legal system and a pretty different copyright > law than Germany), but in Germany the clause you mentioned is simply > void according to German copyright law. > > German copyright law doesn't distinguish whether you get money for > allowing the usage of the program or not. > > The licence is still valid but the clause is void. > > I can accept a void licence clause because this doesn't make it > non-void. That's not uncommon. Perhaps 95% of all software licences > contain clauses that are simply void. > > In case you ask: > No, there is no case law in Germany - we have a different legal system. > > If you like it or not - at least for people in Germany, I see no way how > the law allows you to enforce what you are trying to do. > > You can say it might be morally wrong to break this licence clause - but > this doesn't make it illegal. I think this is true not only in Germany, if I were Larry I would check if the licence is valid in EU. -- Paolo <paolo dot ciarrocchi at gmail dot com> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello: ciarrop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
