On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:16:40PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:13:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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. > Do we reject software that originates in countries that are not signatories > of the Berne convention? No. Is there a reason we should? *Not* being a signatory to Berne doesn't give the author any *more* exclusive rights over the work than they would have if they *were* a signatory. -- 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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