| From: Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Keep in mind that SuSE is not based in the United States and can, if | they so choose, thumb their noses at US patent and copyright law. Red | Hat IS based in the US and cannot (well, will not) knowingly violate US | law. 1. US has a nasty habit of "extraterritoriality" 2. patents are on a country-by-country basis 3. copyrights are universal among Berne Convention signatories (US was a latecomer). That spells out minimum copyright rights but many jurisdictions extend them. Jurisprudence certainly varies. 4. CDDL vs GPLv2 is a copyright issue. 5. Germany doesn't have East Texas. | This is is one reason MP3 decoders, for example, are not part of the | standard Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS distributions as there is a patent on | it. Not everyone agrees that the patent is legitimate or enforceable, | but it is present. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and_legislation> Read that and laugh/cry. It's been a LONG time since disclosure. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
