Re: Validity of the OSL version 2.0 license in Europe

2003-08-24 Thread Flet
At 22:56 07/08/2003 -0700, you wrote: Well, one big issue is that EU law does not recognize "derivative works". It is a US legal concept. Well I don't know for Europe as a whole, but the french law does recognize derivative works. - FL -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-b

Validity of the OSL version 2.0 license in Europe

2003-08-14 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
To: European attorneys on this list Several questions have been raised on other lists about the validity of certain OSI-approved open source licenses in Europe. To focus the problem, we really need to know whether any provision of the Open Software License version 2.0 is invalid anywhere in Eur

Re: Validity of the OSL version 2.0 license in Europe

2003-08-14 Thread Mikko Valimaki
Well, one big issue is that EU law does not recognize "derivative works". It is a US legal concept. Consider article 2 of the directive on computer program copyright, which states as prohibited act: "(b) the translation, adaptation, arrangement and any other alteration of a computer program and