Joe Healy <[email protected]> writes: > Wouldn't they only be able to enforce the terms of the licence against > the person that agreed to the terms of that licence?
The question I'm raising is whether copyright reserves the actions Google asserts; or, more precisely, whether Google could effectively limit a Debian recipient's DFSG freedoms by asserting putative copyright in these works. They could attempt to enforce copyright against any party redistributing the work, claiming that party has no license to redistribute if they didn't comply with the terms of the license. While I hope Paul is correct in saying these works are not subject to copyright restriction, I suspect there may be a significant set of jurisdictions where copyright does restrict these works. Google could make these works effectively non-free by attempting to enforce copyright restrictions. -- \ “[Entrenched media corporations will] maintain the status quo, | `\ or die trying. Either is better than actually WORKING for a | _o__) living.” —ringsnake.livejournal.com, 2007-11-12 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
