Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Hello, > > the “IPR efforts” cause real work for hypothetical problems.
You must be new here. The problems are not hypothetical, other open source projects have been hit with legal issues in the past. The point is to keep them hypothetical here by preventing them from ever occurring. Go read a Groklaw archive if you seriously believe these are not real problems. > > Am Mittwoch, dem 06.01.2021 um 15:27 -0800 schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount: >> >> >> --On Thursday, January 7, 2021 1:15 AM +0200 Дилян Палаузов >> <dilyan.palau...@aegee.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello Matt, >>> >>> I personally cannot apply for US jails, as US law does not apply to >>> me. >>> If some administrative work shall be done because of US laws, then >>> the >>> work shall only be done by those under US law. >> >> Other countries have similar laws. This is a necessary step for the >> project to be able to move forward, take contributions, and do >> releases. >> Generally, it's essentially always the case that you cannot >> implicitly >> strip someone of their rights, they must specifically release them. >> Similar restrictions exist in EU copyright law, for example. >> >> Regards, >> Quanah -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Devel Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/T9066d56fe70247f8-M0c4fbe9067d59d4f7881ed18 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/subscription
