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From ilug-admin@linux.ie Mon Oct 7 12:06:36 2002
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] Interesting article on free software licences
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From: "Ciaran Johnston" <cj@nologic.org>
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X-Original-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:43:11 +0100 (BST)
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:43:11 +0100 (BST)
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David Neary said:
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>
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> For the francophones among you, this article is a summary of the
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> reasons why most free software licences (and the GPL in
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> particular) are not valid in France.
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>
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> http://www.linuxfrench.net/article.php3?id_article=1043
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>
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> Google translation (hard to read most of the time, but good
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> enough to pick up the gist)
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>
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> http://makeashorterlink.com/?U26B52602
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>
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> In brief, in an international contract, when mentioning copyright, you
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> must mention under which jurisdiction's laws the copyright
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> is applied. French law requires the licence to be available in
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> French (the GPL isn't). And French law requires that for a
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> contract to be valid, it must not breach existing law. Also under
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> French law, the copyright holder automatically retains the right
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> to change the licence, which means that French law is in conflict
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> with the GPL, which requires authorisation from all authors
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> before a licence change is allowed.
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>
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> Also there's some stuff about French consumer law forbidding sale
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> without guarantee of anything, so software delivered as-is
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> breaches consumer law in France. But I didn't really follow that.
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My French is a bit iffy these days, but if this is true, does it not also
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nullify Microsoft, Adobe and WinZip licences amongst most others? These all
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claim no liability, no guarantees (M$ say delivered "with all faults", so
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at least they are honest).
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/Ciaran.
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