Re: Non-free files in source packages?

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Arnoud Engelfriet:

>> Unfortunately, German law does not take into account whether the
>> database owner is a German national or not.
>
> Can you give me a cite for that? I was under the impression that
> Germany had simply translated the Directive literally into national
> law. And from http://www.ivir.nl/files/database/#germany I find
> the German Act that put database rights into force. Page 1879, at
> http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/BGBl/TEIL1/1997/19971879.1.HTML
> states among other things:

Thanks for the correction.  You are right.