Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes
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- Subject: Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes
- From: Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:07:54 +0100
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:59:53AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:33:44PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> There are a few people who are most likely to be prosecuted over
>> legal issues in Debian packages that have "adult" themes.
> Oh come on, they're at far greater risk from our overly-permissive
> approach to copyright and patent issues.
A key difference, IMHO, is that only the ( patent | copyright ) holder
can sue over these; mostly anybody can sue over "inappropriate adult
material": parents, grand-parents, cybercafé operators, morality
leagues, ...
--
Lionel
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