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Re: The copyright issue
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Andreas Röhler |
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Re: The copyright issue |
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Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:42:33 +0200 |
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Am 09.08.2010 12:01, schrieb Richard Stallman:
The main reason our lawyer gave when advising us to ask for copyright
assignments is so that the copyright status of the program is simple.
He said that would help us in court if we need to sue someone for
violating the GPL.
We can make an exception occasionally when it is very important
but we should not make many exceptions.
The crux is: this policy puts the risk at the weakest shoulders, at the
contributors.
Please consider: adversaires of free software will not ignore this, will
not miss the point.
BTW we have a prominent example in Germany already, how a career and
social existence of an free softtware
activist might be ruined.
His name is Jörg Tauss. He was a member of the Parliament, the Bundestag.
Inside Germany as in Europe Jörg Tauss took action against software patents.
Knowing the strength of the lobby, I wondered this time, how he will
survive.
Meanwhile he is thrown out of the Parliament, thrown out of the party, a
convicted criminal in the eyes of majority.
Andreas
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- Re: The copyright issue, David Kastrup, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, Richard Stallman, 2010/08/10
- Re: The copyright issue, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/08/11
- Re: The copyright issue, Richard Stallman, 2010/08/11
- Re: The copyright issue, Richard Stallman, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue,
Andreas Röhler <=
- Re: The copyright issue, David Kastrup, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, Andreas Röhler, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, David Kastrup, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, Andreas Röhler, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, David Kastrup, 2010/08/10
- Re: The copyright issue, Andreas Röhler, 2010/08/10
- Re: The copyright issue, Fren Zeee, 2010/08/09
- Re: The copyright issue, Richard Stallman, 2010/08/10
- Re: The copyright issue, David Kastrup, 2010/08/10
- Re: The copyright issue, Andreas Röhler, 2010/08/10