On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:05:53PM +0100, Yves Degoyon wrote: > >It would be good to find out what the legal status of code > >that is illegally licensed. We've had this issue before with the > >not-for-military-use clause that Yves added to his software, rendering > >it technically illegal. A lawyer could tell us if it's a) in legal limbo > >land where nobody is legally allowed to use it b) defaults to public > >domain c) something else weird. > > > in fact, i'm glad of considering my software 'illegal' > when you see what the 'law' ( mainly american ) > and the OMC are able to achieve with tricks.
Yep, I understand and completely sympathise with this viewpoint. In my country (not the USA) there are some really really stupid and petty laws, and I know that some people have to break them on a weekly or daily basis just to live normally. Just the other day the police department started a new television campaign called "Eyes on the street" who's logo is a giant pixellated eye. The advert says that there are people all around us, watching all the time to see if anything is wrong. They also have advertisements that have a cop pointing his finger at the camera saying "Watch out. If you do something wrong we will get you." At my university I saw one of these cars with a giant pixellated eye on the side, and I couldn't help laughing out loud. I don't even know where to start protesting this; I can't even make a joke about it because it's so self parodying and ridiculous. Seems like everyone just writes a complaint in their blog instead of actually doing something. Oh well. Time to move to Europe or Asia I guess. Best, Chris. ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list