jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
However, as long as no *court decision* is made, we can beg than not every lawyer agree together. Even a court decison can be invalidated at some point. so better not too hope on this side
You are of course right, but you should also note that this is a frequently published claim used by people who do not have lawyers that confirm their claims. If lawyers however write well quoted and well reasoned papers and if you find only a single opinion from many lawyers, you can be pretty sure that you are at the right side. Lawyers that give good reasoning for their statments are e.g.: Lawrence Rosen Californian computer law specialist http://rosenlaw.com/ Thomas Gordon Claifornian lawyer working in Germany on automated rule based legal help systems Lothar Determan Professor in law at Freie Universität Berlin and the university of San Francisco This (and because I could not find converse statements in the net) is why I quote them on osscc.net BTW: none of the license related claims on the FSF web pages is sourced with reasoning and many of the claims are in conflict with any statement from lawyers that could be found in the net. For this reason, I recommend to treat the claims from the FSF with care. In general, lawyers that are able to give reasons for their statements and that are able point to the related law paragrahps should be preferred when trying to find the right decision. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org