EU Copyright..

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Sat May 4 18:31:33 UTC 2002


On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 19:07, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:02:19PM +0100, John Tapsell wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 May 2002 6:17 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:14:59PM +0100, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > > > 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
> > > > > The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
> > > > > persons.
> > > > What does it mean to discriminate against a group of people btw?
> > > > If I said this program cannot be used by anyone who has no access to
> > > > PC's, would I be discriminating?
> > > Yes.
> > But it can't - I'd be stating a fact.
> No. There are many uses, like:
> * using on a mobile phone, game console or other non-PC
> * reading printed sources
> * etc.

I suspect you're taking John's words too literally, if he's, in reality,
using PC to mean any electronic/mechanical device capable of running the
software.

Cheers,

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?
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