-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 23:43 +0100, houghi wrote:
An officially endorsed forum makes Novell liable for the content. What about on this mailing list What if I where to link to the infamous rpm
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:48:01PM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: that will allow you to do the forbidden? Will that mail be removed as well?
What if somebody comes here as a new user and says: Hey I found this link to http://example.com/dir/bilvdvscc.rpm that will allow you to make coffee.
What if this is done on the newsgroups, or on a list available on gmane where removal per mail is not possible?
I don't think that Novell can be held responsible for things they have no control over. Someone posting a message on any type of public forum cannot be controlled other than removing their access which happens after the fact.
But that's exactly the ruling in Germany in the Heise case.
They run forums. They have to moderate everything because even having a link to illegal software
(even in a comment from anyone) is considering Heise to be responsible for it.
It's utterly stupid but that's the court ruling.
So do keep such issues in mind. One would hardly go after some forum maintained by a community, but
if it's officially endorsed by Novell/SUSE, it's a different thing.
cheers
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