Its not "illegal" because its a not about laws, but rather copyright
licenses, which is more like contracts, i.e. agreements between
private parties.
Currently pidip is in a state where the two licenses conflict
irreconcilably. So if you use pidip under Yves' license, you could be
sued by the EffecTV copyright holder. Or if you use it under the GPL
from EffecTV, you could be sued by the PiDiP copyright holder.
.hc
On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
illegal where? Globally?
What of fair use?
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From: Mathieu Bouchard [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 8:59 AM
To: Pagano, Patrick
Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PD] new license for pidip and unauthorized WAS: pd-
pidip into Debian
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
So what does this really mean? We have to go back to building pidip
from
source if we want to use it? has it changed that much from when it
was
released? I am just starting to get students interested in learning
these objects and would like to continue
Actually, you don't have the right to use PiDiP, and no-one has the
right
to. It's illegal, and it's been like that for at least five years.
Why is there this animosity?
Because there is a genuine legal problem, and it's been there for at
least
five years, but for some people, it has somehow become more obvious
now,
because the Degoyon clause just expanded a lot, though it was already
just as illegal in 2005.
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