jdd wrote:
Le 11/02/2011 15:35, Satoru Matsumoto a écrit :
That's why I have to ask, "Which country's copyright law and guidelines should we refer to, when we act as a part of openSUSE project?"
that's not a question we can answer...
the problem is pretty hard. One have to respect the law of the country where he lives. But being question of a web page, does it belongs to the readers country, the server place country or any other I don't think of?
in a jugement of french court against Google, the french court decided that the law is that of *the reader*. The case was the one of advertising objects from world war II. Google was asked to not deliver the info to french country and this was acknowledged by Google
(may be it's ebay, not google, but the result is the same)
so the best we can do is to be very conservative
So, let's see this matter through a different lens. As I wrote in another post in this thread, I think '99.99% we won't be charged with violation of copyright, because most of the authors want their works to be read by as many readers as possible.' However, in case a copyright owner will start a lawsuit, who will be the defendant? For now, openSUSE Foundation is not yet established and openSUSE project itself doesn't have legal personality. This is not only the case of OWN team, but may be also the case of other teams in openSUSE project. If an activity of a team (and in case the activity is a part of activities of whole project) will violate some laws, who should be responsible? Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org