On-list Pedantry and Dffering/International Legal Jurisdictions

[Alex Perez]

MJ Ray wrote:
> This was a throwaway quip on the end to draw attention to the problems
> of firefox's current inclusion of non-free-software artwork. Oh well.
>
> Alex Perez wrote:
>
> > MJ Ray wrote:
> >
> > > By the way, do you have permission to use the copyrighted firefox
> > > trademark artwork to promote gnustep? It's not GPL, IIRC ;-)
> >
> > Please! You've obviously never heard of Fair Use.
>
>
> I've heard of it, but it's not in the English legislation. There's
> only this weaker "Fair Dealing" thing. You've obviously never heard
> of the rest of the world. (Yeah, I know that's a daft claim, but no
> dafter than yours.)
As Jesse is an American citizen, and his content is hosted on an 
American server, English law is completely irrelevant, thanks very much. 
Please, you are the one who presumed that what he did was in some way 
not legal, which is truly *laughable*, and now you're accusing *me* of 
"not having heard of the rest of the world" which has nothing to do with 
the discussion. English law is as irrelevant to this discussion as is 
Sharia (Islamic Law) in Sweden.

> > [...] If I make a screenshot of my Windows environment, I don't need to
> > get permission from Microsoft to use the Internet Explorer Icon if I
> > advertise my new app via a screenshot.
>
>
> Indeed, but that's incidental inclusion rather than deliberate use of
> the artwork when making a montage.

Your on-list pedantry needs to stop. Please, I am asking you nicely, 
keep it on debian-legal where this kind of abhorrant self-masturbatory 
behavior is tolerated, if not encouraged.

I don't think there's a soul here who wants to hear your incessant, 
pedantic drivel any time anyone does anything that you happen to feel 
the need to seize upon for some unknown (and, indeed, irrelevant and 
unimportant) reason.