Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:28 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Marty wrote:
> > John Hasler wrote:
> >
> >> I wrote:
> >>
> >>> A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us
> >>> cannot be distributed at all.
> >>
> >>
> >> Marty writes:
> >>
[snip]
> >
> > If their laws have nothing to do with Debian, then why shouldn't US laws
> > have nothing to do with Debian? (It seems like a double standard to me.)
>
> Laws apply to places where the governments enforcing them choose to
> exercise jurisdiction.
Because of extradition treaties, that could be in a foreign country.
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