Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:02:15 +0200
From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > Indeed. Those people don't realise that their "copyright" law is different to 
> > the almost the rest of the world. 
> 
> > In most of Europe there in no "The Copyright", but "authors' or
> > moral rights" ("derechos de autor", "droit d'auteur") and
> > "exploitation rights" (or economic rights).
> 
> > Author/moral rights cannot be jeopardized.
> 
> Except when the work is a computer program.  Check the law sometime!

You have mixed that with PATENT law.


Bis denn

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