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On 11/03/14 17:37, Adam Saunders wrote:
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On 03/11/2014 01:21 PM, Tristan Santore wrote:
On 11/03/14 17:19, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:11:33PM
+0000, Tristan Santore wrote:
Fortunately, for us people in Europe,
those issues only apply
indirectly.
If it makes you feel happy believing that, by all means
proceed with
that belief.
- RF
Please elaborate further. ;-}
I am all ears.
I'm not sure, but I believe Richard is referring to the extent to
which either:
(a) Patents that read on (or may be interpreted as reading on)
RPMFusion packages have been granted in at least some European
countries, and opens up the providers of the RPMFusion packages to
potential patent infringement claims in those European countries
to which the RPMFusion is territorially connected (e.g. servers or
repository mirrors in Italy); OR
(b) The breathtaking extent to which American courts are willing
to exert extraterritorial jurisdiction over the provision of
services over the Internet. As I understand it, merely providing a
service on a website accessible to the United States (meaning no
geo-IP blocking) is enough for lots of American judges to assert
the jurisdiction of American law (including the enforcement of
American patents). For these judges, the location of the service
provider and the location of the server hosting the online service
is irrelevant; OR
(c) both (a) and (b)
Of course, Richard might be referring to something else.
Best,
Adam Saunders
Regards,
Tristan
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Adam,
I think we are all aware of the issues. Tom is quite right, whatever
Canonical does is way beyond the scope of this list, fact is Fedora
and Red Hat have to adhere to the Law of the Land of the resident
nation.
I think Richard and I were just digressing for a bit. I think the
risk would be we turn this list into a "war of laws", which of
course would reflect the current state of affairs across the world,
meaning the chaos we all face in the FOSS community (and actually
the business community as well). Probably best to leave it at that.
Of course, it would be nice, maybe, if one day there could be legal
professionals from across Europe, the US and other parts of the
world, making up legal opinion and arguments for public reference,
as to what is permitted and what is not. Volunteers welcome!
That should most certainly be interesting for many of us.
Regards,
Tristan
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