On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 19:14, Olivier Biot wrote:
> From: Motonori Shindo
>
> | Interesting precedent around netfilter/iptables:
> |
> | http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-04-15-sitecom-gpl.html
>
> There is much discussion about the implications of an open-source
> license and its interpretation in Europe, which significantly differs
> from the US interpretation. It looks like the European interpretation
> is much more compulsive. However I need some input from an European
> attorney on this as some say that in Europe a GPL license may require
> the software producer to offer correctly functional software and the
> limited disclaimer can in some times be nulled.
Try contacting the the FSF's in europe, like;
http://www.fsfeurope.org
http://www.ffs.or.at/
http://www.ffis.de/
They certainly know how the GPL works in Europe. And when it comes to
"must offer working software", well we have Microsoft and all other
major software firms fighting that, since they certainly don't want to
be forced to offer actually working products.
>
> See for example the Dutch issue of Telecom Magazine -- sorry, I don't
> have it at hand anymore and I'm not going to translate the article...
> for now :)
> (http://www.telecommagazine.nl/)
I couldn't find the article, but the headline already makes it sound
like pure FUD. The typical "you can not sue anybody over GPL software"
BS, probably not worth the trouble translating.
> Regards,
>
> Olivier
- Erwin
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