* Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030902 19:20]: > 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, [...] Not really. Common accepted international treaties have precedence over german laws. (That states the German constitution in Article 25; a similar rule is stated in the treaty about treaties, but as you say there are countries which ignore this.) And there is a international treaty about which legal system applies in the area of civil law, but I understand that treaty only in simple cases. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C