On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:48 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.legal/browse_frm/thread/6480c64e71ebb4fa > > ----- > On 2/15/06, Ville Oksanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <clip> > > > > Dr. Mikko Välimäki has a quite nice article on the topic: > > > > Mikko Välimäki: Copyleft Licensing and EC Competition Law, forthcoming > > in European Competition Law Review 3/2006 > > http://www.valimaki.com/org/open_source_competition.pdf > > Thanks. > > "So far, there is no evidence that open source licensors would use > these obligations with malicious intention trying to turn all software > into open source."
Other interesting quote from Mikko:
Does the zero-royalty requirement in copyleft clause qualify as
restricted price fixing (or the setting of a maximum price) in
terms of the block exemption? The following observations speak
against such a conclusion:
- A royalty-free requirement does not imply that the price of
the software must be zero. Software can be priced through other
means than copyright royalties as well.
- Copyleft clause does not affect all further “production of
goods and services”. It does not cover services at all and only
covers goods, which are “derivative works” of the licensed
software as further defined in copyright law.
> Oh really?
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.int-property/msg/ea7b34ddbe4f175a
(... loads of useless self-quoting ...)
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