* Florian Weimer <[email protected]> [111225 18:30]: > Germany has the same problem, I think, because in order to protect > authors from distributors (which are often quasi-monopolistic), there > are limits to what license grants authors can make. As a result, a > similar situation could theoretically arise. My favorite example is > an author objecting to a Windows port of her software, on the grounds > that it's misrepresentation of her work.
I don't think there is much danger in that regard (wacky judges can make everything a problem, so let's assume judges with brains). An author can withdraw his work if he "changed his opinion", but that only takes effect until he paid everyone owning a copy enough money to cover the direct costs of it no longer being available. Given the lengthy preamble of the GPL everything else should hardly be a problem given how much of the author's intend is specified. (Perhaps with the exceptions of things anyway a no-go like creating something awfull and claiming that was done by the original author). Everything in this mail my personal opinion, if you want to be advised about the law ask a lawyer... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
