> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > >> Honestly, license agreements are not applicable in Iran (and many other >> countries). License Agreements may be important if you live in US and >> some other countries, but don't have a case in Iran. In Iran, you only >> have the copyright law. > > And of course the contract law. To be precise, the Islamic > contract law ;). Perhaps we should raise some funds to pay a > lawyer to resolve this issue... > > behdad > >> roozbeh
This has been an interesting thread. I have a story that relates to this. My youngest sister is turning into an accomplished painter. On a recent visit to Iran, I brought back some of her works. I asked her to sign them. She signed the back of the frame, rather than -- as she put it -- deface the painting with her signature. She felt that she was only the conduit for the creativity and not the source and so couldn't take credit for the work. Her thinking is probably influenced partly by modesty and partly by religion. I don't know anything about the laws in Iran, but I would imagine that this attitude probably permeates throughout the Intellectual Property law. Obviously this isn't good for the traditional software business model (licensing binaries, and hiding the code), but I am not sure that the Open Source business model wouldn't also be hurt by it. _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
