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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:34:37PM +0200, Jon Lech Johansen wrote: |
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> Explicit permission from the copyright owner is required to legally |
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> redistribute: |
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Yes, but don't forget the reason for copyright to be there in the |
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first place; to protect the investment and make sure that you can make |
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money of that investment in the future. I think that by putting |
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something on the web for free download, without putting any |
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restrictions on it, they've made it clear that they don't mind if |
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these codecs are spread further. Not the same as, but quite similar |
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to, email and Usenet postings. Note how many companies, including |
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Microsoft and Apple, /do/ put restrictions on nearly everything else |
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they publish on the web. |
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If they did have any comments on gentoo mirroring their codecs, I |
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think that your initial letters to their legal deparments would have |
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atleast generated some response other than total silence. |
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Anyways, I doubt my gentoo-mirror is any faster than the Microsoft / |
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Apple sites, so I wouldn't exactly weep if portage downloaded the |
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codecs from those sites instead of the mirror. ;) |
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Oh, if only the world would've been run by people with common sense[1] |
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instead of lawyers... ;) |
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//H |
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[1] Not that I'm known as an abundant source of 'common sense'. |
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