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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Jon Lech Johansen wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Fredrik Jagenheim (humming@×××××.com) wrote: |
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> > Which, in a twist of irony, makes /him/ guilty of copyright |
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> > infringement. |
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> Heard about fair use? |
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Yeah, I know. Making a commentary on copyrighted works falls under the fair use |
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clause. I should've added a smiley on that. |
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OTOH, to get back to the real point; If you are giving away your |
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copyrighted works for free, for the intent purpose of all users to |
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freely use your program, without shipping a license, or even a note, |
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on how this program may be distributed, I think you've made it pretty |
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clear that, unless you tell the offending parties otherwise, you have |
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no problems with it being redistributed. |
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It would be a totally different thing if gentoo earned money on the |
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codecs (which the distribution doesn't), if there was a notice on how |
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redistribution is restricted (like all papers do) or if there was some |
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legal blurb that had to be clicked through (like the sun-jdk). Now |
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there is nothing of this, and as you have already sent mails to the |
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legal departments of apple and microsoft and made them aware of this |
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potential problem, I think we should just sit down and wait for their |
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reaction. |
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//H |
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To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. |
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