On Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:59, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> > pliant european legal system (UK law, for example). i don't see any way > > in which the ASF could act to help release managers faced with the > > criminal law in europe > Also note that in the Apache Software Foundation it is not the release > manager who is distributing any code or choosing what to release when - > but the Apache Sofware Foundation. I don't claim to know anything about the European sw patent issue, but assuming that Robert is fairly well informed, the situation would become; ASF can not issue a statement superceding the law, esp not criminal law, no matter how much it wants to take blame in the criminal act. Worst thing that could happen would be that both are charged, and if found guilty ASF slapped with a hefty fine, which it can't pay, which may lead to confiscation of the physical assets in Europe and possibly restriction on how it is allowed to do "business" there. I thought that common sense would finally come to the whole sw patent issue in europe, and didn't bother to keep abreast of the development. Scary. Indeed. I feel for you guys. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.dpml.net / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
