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Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License



On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0500, selussos wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "MJ Ray" <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>
[...]
> > On 2004-03-08 00:57:38 +0000 selussos <mgr@x-oz.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > All of you have stated, endlessly, that you are not lawyers, and
> > > that is obviously the case since many of your questions deal with
> > > 'fair use' under the U.S. Copyright law.  I would ask that you
> > > familiarize with that definition and you will find that answers
> > > most, if not all, of your questions.
> > 
> > I am not in the United States. Copyright law here has no "fair use" 
> > term in it, only a restricted "fair dealing" provision. We cannot rely 
> > on the US copyright law's "fair use" contradicting your licence terms 
> > in a way that makes it a free software licence. I ask that you 
> > familiarise yourself with this basic problem of copyright and free 
> > software. Software that is "free only for US residents" isn't free 
> > software (or "open source" AIUI).
> 
> I am unaware of what AIUI means so I cannot comment on 
> this at all.

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:33:02PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0500, selussos wrote:
> > I am unaware of what AIUI means so I cannot comment on 
> > this at all.
> 
> As I Understand It

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:41:30AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
> 
>   AIUI
>        As I Understand It (telecommunication-slang, Usenet, IRC)
> 
> I suggest http://www.dict.org/ as a handy tool.

Now that you aware of what AIUI means, we look forward to your response.

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