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.
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