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[Casimiro de Almeida Barreto]

Em Seg, 2004-11-08 às 15:13 -0600, Otto Haliburton escreveu:
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> Legal issues generally will waggle themselves into any discussion, but the
> thing is to keep them focused.  So there is good and bad in the discussion,
> I just don't see the antagonism thing (my spelling is atrocious).  The
> hostility and respect for whoever responds on the list.  Tolerance is a
> virtue.
> 
> 

In a development list, legal issues are important when we consider what
is in and what is out a distribution. They're also important when we
have to ponder things that are in but may be out in next distros... Just
imagine that you develop tools using/for a programming environment that
is present from the beggining of a distro and, at some point, it ceases
to be distributed/supported despite the fact that the "new" license
still grants the users the right of downloading and using it for non-
profit purposes...

I don't know US legal system and I don't know about US pattent and
copyright laws, so you can blame me for not being american and not
understanding US laws but the fact stands: what can be done to ensure
developers that they won't have surprises in future...

Regarding to software patents, in my point of view they are as absurd as
pattenting the name of Cupuaçú... But this is not the place for
discussing this.

Regards,

Casimiro
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