RE: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13T22:11:12Z

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:24 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > Maybe not under (US-American) copyright, but under continental
> > European authors rights there are such possibilities (I leave it to
> > lawyers if and when they apply) and you can't even remove them with
> > contracts (as with all law stuff).
>
> Please refrain from knee-jerk USA-bashing, you said yourself you don't

Whatever "knee-jerk" means, I'm not "USA-bashing" as such - at most I'm
"copyright"-bashing (opposed to modern authors rights. Copyright is also
somewhat the predecessor of modern authors rights so there is room to
improve there.) and/or just reminding several people that US law is not
the only relevant in the world.

> know the law.

Yes, I'm not a lawyer, but I do know some parts of it enough to have an
opinion. And when it comes to details and special circumstances, the
specialists should speak up.

Bernd
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