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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:25:28 +0100
From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.
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Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:00 +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:24 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>>>> Maybe not under (US-American) copyright, but under continental
>>>> European authors rights there are such possibilities (I leave it to
>>>> lawyers if and when they apply) and you can't even remove them with
>>>> contracts (as with all law stuff).
>>>>
>>> Please refrain from knee-jerk USA-bashing, you said yourself you don't
>>> know the law.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>> Are you completely out of your head or what? When somebody reminds you 
>> of the fact that U.S. law is not the only law in the world and that some 
>> things may be different in other countries you call him a knee-jerking 
>> USA-basher???
>>
> 
> No I was referring to the implication that the GPL is not enforceable
> under US copyright law.

Well, I'd really like to know how your patriotic sentiments were hurt by 
Bernd in the above sentence. Maybe we Europeans are not compassionate 
enough, it seems, as I can see absolutely nothing anti-american in his 
posting. Maybe mentioning the existence of other countries/laws is 
nowadays considered anti-american?

Tim


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