On Mar, 21 de Diciembre de 2004, 14:15, robert burrell donkin dijo: > On 21 Dec 2004, at 19:52, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 00:02, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > <snip> > >> Furthermore, it was explained to me that the patent right disclaimers >> in the >> ASL2.0 can be circumvented in nasty ways by a truly malicious >> company/individual if that is the intent, SO the GPL compatibility had >> higher >> value than the patent right issue. > > in europe at least, it's very likely that this won't really matter. > > by this time next year, software patent violations are most likely to > be enforceable by criminal sanction. any company wanted to maliciously > damage an open source project would only have to target individual > european release managers using the most pliant european legal system > (UK law, for example). i don't see any way in which the ASF could act > to help release managers faced with the criminal law in europe and > (against this particular patent threat) neither the GPL nor the ASL > could offer any protection at all. IMO the chilling effect of only one > open source release manager facing a long prison sentence together with > total sequestration of assets would be tremendous.
As a workaround we can give release manager roles to people in countries where this problems does not exists at all. ;-) > happy christmas, one and all! +1 Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
