On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:26:53AM +0530, Viral wrote:
I followed the previous thread from the archives of debian-legal last year
for including fortune packages with quotes from movies etc.
I understand, that this would be considered as Fair Use, as long as
it is correctly attributed.
At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:54:02 -0700,
Osamu Aoki wrote:
Big question is what did Mr. Wakaba used as the base of glyph. And how
far modification later affected the total collection. If he started
with then popular PC9800's ROM fonts with mere 16x16 bitmap fonts as
starting point of making TT
What is not highly visible to most is that Hollywood and book publishers
have large rights clearance infrastructures. Moreover, the threat of mutual
copyright destruction is strong among these established organizations i.e.
you sue me for copyright infringement, I may or probably will
This is the kind of notice that gets deep-pocket distributors in knots.
Pedigree is a major concern. Where did this code from? Is it authorized for
distribution? Did some insider take this (perhaps confidential) source and
add it to the distribution?
The deep-pocket distributor could be sued
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:26:42AM -0400, Chloe Hoffman wrote:
Just for interest.. here is the European Copyright Directive language with
respect to reverse engineering. Note that reverse engineering is quite
limited. Also, more accurately, the contractual prohibition may be null and
void
Just for interest.. here is the European Copyright Directive language with
respect to reverse engineering. Note that reverse engineering is quite
limited. Also, more accurately, the contractual prohibition may be null and
void but there are no other consequences AFAIK e.g. fines, etc.
Article
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:49PM +0100 , Oliver Elphick wrote:
I have to reiterate a query about what to do with postgresql in view of its
now being linked with libssl.
don't do it
Since this question is currently being referred to legal advice, do you
want me to move postgresql into
Petr == Petr Cech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since this question is currently being referred to legal
advice, do you want me to move postgresql into non-us, which
will force any packages depending on it into non-us too, or
should I leave it alone pending resolution of the
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:00:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html
There is not a decision yet, but it's looking grim.
Judging things like this too early is usually a mistake. And I would
suspect that Declan has gotten pretty cynical on
On 01-May-2001 Branden Robinson wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html
There is not a decision yet, but it's looking grim.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit court of appeals looks disinclined to regard compiled
code as speech. They also seem to feel that fair use does not
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you
You can't. However, fortunately the argument that fair use isn't intended
to apply to technologically modern media holds no water at all and is
unlikely to be accepted by
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you lose a
lot of the info, macrovision won't let you. It concerns me that the judge
even
suggested it (or was it a lawyer).
Yup, it was Judge Jon Newman,
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:49PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
I have to reiterate a query about what to do with postgresql in view of its
now being linked with libssl.
Since this question is currently being referred to legal advice, do you
want me to move postgresql into non-us, which will
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:36:05PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
which gives no mention of copyright or license. I looked through the tarball
for the Unix LiveConnect/Plug-in SDK (unix-sdk-3.0b5.tar.Z) and found
the following files corresponding to those in the Flash distribution:
Hi,
I followed the previous thread from the archives of debian-legal last year
for including fortune packages with quotes from movies etc.
I understand, that this would be considered as Fair Use, as long as
it is correctly attributed. However because of inclusion in the archives,
CDs can be
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