From: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
To: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.aau.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:40:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmpm227e.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4345215B.7060708@cs.aau.dk> (Emmanuel Fleury's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:06:35 +0200")
Emmanuel Fleury writes:
>>>Are you sure this point has been clarified in court in the past ?
>>>If not, I would bet on it (for the specific case of settop boxes).
>>
>> For french law I don't know, but someone on gpl-violation this is true
>> for de and au.
>
> Nonsense, you are talking about cases of softwares which were sold to
> customers with GPL code inside. This is no such case here.
In the US, the law (17 USC 106) is very clear that renting, lending,
and leasing are "distribution" that is a protected right. The Berne
Convention says the same in article 11bis (remember that a later
revision explicitly included computer programs in "literary works").
Do you think this interpretation of "distribution" does not apply to
Free? If not, why not?
Michael Poole
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-06 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-06 12:01 freebox possible GPL violation Pierre Michon
2005-10-06 13:06 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:40 ` Michael Poole [this message]
2005-10-06 14:48 ` Matan Peled
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-06 23:26 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 17:57 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:06 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:47 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 15:18 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:49 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 15:12 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 11:13 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 11:22 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:37 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:02 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:29 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:45 ` Michael Poole
2005-10-05 17:11 ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-06 0:07 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 0:49 ` David Lang
2005-10-06 1:12 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-06 2:25 ` David Lang
2005-10-06 9:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 9:51 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 9:53 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 11:39 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 13:05 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:42 ` Michael Poole
2005-10-06 14:19 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 20:15 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-11 2:27 ` David Schwartz
2005-10-11 10:48 ` Graham Murray
2005-10-05 12:15 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 11:45 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-05 11:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:50 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 10:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 10:18 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 8:47 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-15 9:40 ` Loic Dachary
2005-10-19 17:58 ` Pierre Michon
2005-10-20 15:29 ` Loic Dachary
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