Re: [Savannah-users] Savannah project => German law, "Impressum" (imprint) necessary?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

We don't have policy about that.
I honestly have no knowledge about this issue.

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Sylvain

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:56:29AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a question regarding the German law. As far as I know in Germany [1] 
> you have to provide for your  website/ project an "Impressum" (imprint).
> My project "Afghan Calendar" [2] (website and download area) will be hosted 
> at Savannah, it will also provide German localized calendars with historical 
> dates.
> I would like to know if it is  necessary to provide a personal "Impressum" 
> (imprint) for this project or is it enough to redirect to Savannah's imprint 
> (by the way what would be the correct URL?) ?
> 
> In general a imprint is good idea, but regarding the German law one has to 
> provide a post address (a post office box is not sufficient) in general this 
> is identical to the address where you live :-( .
> For a project which is world wide accessible this could be a little risky 
> (e.g. if you don't want to be disturbed at the weekends ;-)  etc.).
> 
> What is the general Savannah policy?
> 
> Regards 
> Alekozai
> 
> 
> 1: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum#Deutsche_Rechtslage
> 2: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?6156