Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:57:45 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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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> So, in the UK, you lose some (non-transferable) moral rights by virtue
> of it being a computer program, but not all moral rights.  In
> particular you don't have the moral right to be identified as author
> or director of the work, or the right to object to derogatory
> treatment of the work.

Now go back and read the URL Richard posted:

	http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l26027.htm

particularly (7).  Next, you need to find out what happened when this
later piece of law got passed through parliament:

	http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19923233_en_5.htm

Note that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 seems to have
been ammended.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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