On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:16:39AM +0900, Fedor Zuev wrote: > The same as for the backup of any other content: from > proprietary program to temporary files for which you do not have > explicit licences just because they are temporary files, for example > emails. > > If you practise to made backups - then you have some legal > basis to do so. > > If you happens to live in the country where that legal basis > not exists .... well, that is certainly NOT a problem of licence. > Public licences can not and shall not be a universal cure for any > legal stupidity exists or may be invented in the world. Or, you > should be coherent and call non-free any licence which not provide > effective counter-measure for DMCA, UCITA, PATRIOT Act, EU Copyright > directives, TRIPS and so on. In other words, ALL licences. Ah, he's arguing a "Fair Use" exemption from the requirements of the GNU FDL. Interesting. As far as I know, the Debian Project has never before had to rely on such a legal theory to exercise fundamental freedoms for software under a license we regarded as "Free". This "Fair Use" argument is likely to fly quite well in, say, the United Kingdom. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. branden@debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
Attachment:
pgpJ3xESOdTf6.pgp
Description: PGP signature