On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:33:23PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:27:35PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > It makes it inconvenient for users and debian-legal, needing to > > know local absurdities of Seaforth or whereever's court procedures. > By this reasoning, we should reject every package for which someone holds > copyright, because it is inconvenient for us to know the local absurdities of > copyright law of Seaforth or whereever. No, actually, my country's government doesn't give a flying fruit basket what *another* country says copyright protections should be; if the work is being distributed in the US, it's US copyright law that applies, because in the absence of US copyright law *the work would enjoy no copyright protection at all*. This is one of the reasons the Berne Convention exists -- to ensure that signatory nations offer comparable copyright protections to works regardless of their country of origin. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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