Could someone provide me with an english abstract of the issues ?
In europe the only issue I've found has to do with the "moral" right to withdraw a work from distribution. And even in that case, nobody was able to answer me on what happens to derived works on such an event.
Anyway, this is not supposed to have nothing to do with the GPL, because the "moral" rights are law, and GPL is an author's authorisation, not law. The only issue is with the 4 freedoms, not the GPL in itself (as the withdrawal right is incompatible with the freedoms 2 and 3).
Anyway, I really would be surprised that companies like SuSE and IBM wouldn't have passed the GPL through their legal departments. But I usually expect too much from companies...
A Qua, 2003-07-02 às 11:50, Onno Timmerman escreveu:
On Slashdot it stated that in Germany GPL isn't legal. Is this true? http://www.vsi.de/inhalte/aktuell/studie_final.pdf http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/02/0245228.shtml?tid=117&tid=99
And if so what legal work should be done to make it legal. If somebody knows if any resaerch has be done in Belgium I would welcome it and try to get a new law in act that make GPL very wel protected.
Onno
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Hi,
Could someone provide me with an english abstract of the issues ?
In europe the only issue I've found has to do with the "moral" right to withdraw a work from distribution. And even in that case, nobody was able to answer me on what happens to derived works on such an event.
For France, at least two legal research papers about the GPL concluding to its validity (both in French):
http://soufron.free.fr/files/recherche.html http://crao.net/gpl/
As always with lawyers, there isn't unanimity on this subject.