On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:28 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Marty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > > >> I wrote: > >> > >>> A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us > >>> cannot be distributed at all. > >> > >> > >> Marty writes: > >> [snip] > > > > If their laws have nothing to do with Debian, then why shouldn't US laws > > have nothing to do with Debian? (It seems like a double standard to me.) > > Laws apply to places where the governments enforcing them choose to > exercise jurisdiction.
Because of extradition treaties, that could be in a foreign country. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation." William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, 1831 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]