Re: Desert Island Test [Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL]
* Sean Kellogg (skellogg@u.washington.edu) [040713 10:55]:
> With great respect to the 95% of the world population that does not live
> within the US... the great majority of the world does operate under laws
> derived from the common law system, which is embodied within the restatement
> of law (there is one for each area of law). Even in the civil law societies
> (most of continental Europe and Japan) the law has been adopted from the
> United States post World War II, especially in the area of contract law where
> global economies have force a homogenization of the law. So while your
> statement is certainly true and should always be remembered... it doesn't
> make the fact that this is the law in most places any less true.
That's not true. It's just the other way, the Berne Convention is a
typical civil law construct.
Cheers,
Andi
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