On Friday 01 September 2006 14:43, Sebastian Wangnick wrote: > Dear folks, > > in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109, Mr. Schilling > claims the following: > > In Europe, we have the "Recht auf das wissenschaftliche Kleinzitat" > that allows us to cite other works without asking in case that the > quoted text (or images) is not too big compared to the own "intellectual > creation level". > > As USA/Europe have a mutual acceptance of the US-Copyright vs. > Urheberrecht, this is even legal if the cited author is US citizen.
Could you please describe in english the german term `Urheberrecht' and how it differs from the `Copyright' ? > So the "Recht auf das wissenschaftliche Kleinzitat" allows a European > author to "quote" small portions of e.g. GPL code without asking the author > for permissions. The European "Urheberrecht" on the other side forbids a > minor contributor to govern the license for the project that makes use of > the "Recht auf das wissenschaftliche Kleinzitat". Same goes for `Recht auf das wissenschaftliche Kleinzitat' > I'm not sure whether his conclusion is complete. According to > http://www.sakowski.de/skripte/urheber2.html, citing is not allowed to > replace (only to illustrate or backup) own statements of the author. I > would therefore presume that whilst "quoting" GPL code, e.g., in a comment, > to illustrate ones own approach might be OK, using GPL code as a mandatory > element in the software would not be OK. But I am not a lawyer ... I'd love to start learning german, but only if I have the appropriate time to do so. However, it is not so much of fun to learn yet another legal system. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
