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From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>,
	Richard Kenner	<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>,
	iant@google.com, Joe.Buck@synopsys.com,	ams@gnu.org,
	bkoz@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, richard.guenther@gmail.com,
	stevenb.gcc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100730231113.edyj5pumwcskc0ok-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5369D1.7030302@adacore.com>

Quoting Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>:

> Joern Rennecke wrote:
>
>> Actually, the legal definition of fair use / fair dealing that   
>> might or might
>> not apply depends on the country of residence of the contributer
>
> Not true in the US for sure.

Are you saying that the USA is a solipsist nation that denies the existence
of people (or at least of Free Software developers) in other places?

That would be a rather odd regression, considering that other parts of the
GPL - and in particular v3 - were specifically written so as to to make
its meaning uniform irrespective of differences in national laws.

If you want to make the point that the FSF would have to consider fair
use if it were to sue in an US court - well, AFAICT it wouldn't have to,
it could sue in the court of the contributor's country of residence /
incorporation, as is common in patent cases where the patent might be
invalid in the patent holders's country of incorporation.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-31  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26  4:19 Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26  7:25 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 15:42   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-05-26 16:03     ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 18:10       ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:27         ` Richard Kenner
2010-05-26 18:42         ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:06           ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 21:07             ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:42               ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:26             ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:28               ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 22:54                 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-05-26 23:12                   ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:37             ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27  5:10           ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-26 19:16         ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 16:08     ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 18:09     ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:12       ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 23:12       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-26  8:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27  7:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-27  8:04     ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27  8:12       ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-26 21:15 ` Matthias Klose
2010-05-26 21:42   ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-26 21:51   ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-27  0:01 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-05-27  5:39 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-27 11:46   ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27 17:20   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-27 22:51     ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-28  0:32       ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-28  2:51         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-15  0:23 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-22 23:22   ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-22 23:28     ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-22 23:36       ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23  0:27         ` Joe Buck
2010-07-23  2:18           ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-23  3:11           ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23  8:23         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 15:59           ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 16:34             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 16:42               ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27  0:50           ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27  1:26             ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27  1:37               ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-27 15:54                 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 17:41                   ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27 17:45                     ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 21:20                     ` Gerald Pfeifer
2010-07-27 18:08                   ` Joe Buck
2010-07-27 18:09                     ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 20:25                       ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-27 21:39                         ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 21:00                         ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 21:17                           ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 22:08                             ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 22:30                               ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-29  7:41                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-29  8:36                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-29  8:55                                   ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29  9:23                                   ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 12:47                                   ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:11                                     ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-29 14:25                                       ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:33                                         ` Jeff Law
2010-07-29 14:40                                           ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-30 11:02                                           ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 11:01                                         ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 18:08                                         ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 14:53                                     ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 11:03                                       ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 14:29                                         ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 15:54                                           ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-31  0:10                                             ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31  3:11                                               ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
2010-07-31 12:24                                                 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31  0:08                                           ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31  0:16                                             ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-02 23:13                                               ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:16                                                 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:21                                                   ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:23                                                   ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-02 23:34                                                     ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:45                                                       ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03  0:57                                                         ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-03  2:08                                                           ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03 18:46                                                           ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 19:16                                                             ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:17                                                               ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:11                                                                 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:19                                                                   ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 19:47                                                                   ` Joel Sherrill
2010-08-15 20:21                                                                     ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-16 12:10                                                                   ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17  3:19                                                                     ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-17  3:56                                                                       ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-17 10:41                                                                         ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-03  9:05                                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-03  0:51                                                   ` Paul Koning
2010-08-03 16:20                                                     ` Joe Buck
2010-08-03 18:49                                                       ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-03 21:45                                                         ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-15 16:17                                                         ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 17:24                                                           ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:12                                                             ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 16:17                                                             ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:16                                                               ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-16 20:53                                                             ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-08-03 19:58                                                       ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-08-04  7:23                                                         ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 13:10                                                           ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04  7:21                                                       ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 16:46                                                         ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 17:35                                                           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:37                                                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:45                                                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:56                                                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:59                                                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 19:02                                                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 20:03                                                                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 20:25                                                                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 20:52                                                                     ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04 21:12                                                                     ` Richard Guenther
2010-08-04 22:29                                                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 23:08                                                                         ` Joe Buck
2010-08-05  3:54                                                                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-05  3:09                                                                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 18:48                                                             ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:42                                                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-03 18:36                                                 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-04  0:08                                                   ` Miles Bader
2010-07-27  3:31               ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29 20:20 Brian Makin
2010-07-29 21:06 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:03 Brian Makin

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