On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:47:53AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > And: I don't know international law good enough to decide if (and > when) german law is applicable to software in debian. It is certainly > applicable between any german user and me, a german subject and > resident. But almost everything else is discussable.
German law applies to anything it says it can apply to, if you can get the defendant in the country. Extradition is an entirely different matter. For example, US law applies to everybody in the world, regardless of whether they are a US citizen or have even been to the US (I believe this is relatively unusual - to the best of my knowledge, UK law only applies to people who are currently in a UK territory). However, European countries won't normally[0] extradite people who haven't broken any laws in their country of residence. [0] Politics can and often does determine this, rather than the legal system -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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