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Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL



Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> schrieb/wrote:
>> Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> schrieb/wrote:
>>> Ok, you're right -- while copyright law makes no specific provisions
>>> about how the copy arrives,...

> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:27:00PM +0200, Claus Färber wrote:
>> That's plain wrong. Copyright law restricts actions related to a
>> copyrighted work, not results.

> Cite?

Berne Convention, Art. 8 to 14.
Directive 2001/29/EG, Art. 3 and 4
17 USC §106
Copyright Law of Japan, Art. 22 to 28

All of these give the author the exclusive right, for example, to *make*
copies.

> On the flip side, consider the legal principle of contributory
> infringement.

Contributory infringment still relates to infringing actions to which
one contributes.

Claus
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http://www.faerber.muc.de




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