Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License
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).
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